All 14 Uses
chasm
in
Dante's Inferno -- translated by Cary
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- I thus: "Instructor, clearly thy discourse
Proceeds, distinguishing the hideous chasm
And its inhabitants with skill exact.†Canto 1.1-11chasm = a large gap or divide - As is that ruin, which Adice's stream
On this side Trento struck, should'ring the wave,
Or loos'd by earthquake or for lack of prop;
For from the mountain's summit, whence it mov'd
To the low level, so the headlong rock
Is shiver'd, that some passage it might give
To him who from above would pass; e'en such
Into the chasm was that descent: and there
At point of the disparted ridge lay stretch'd
The infamy of Crete, detested brood
Of the feign'd heifer: and at sight of us
It gnaw'd itself, as one with rage distract.†Canto 1.12-22 - Soon as we to him arrive,
A little further on mine eye beholds
A tribe of spirits, seated on the sand
Near the wide chasm.†Canto 1.12-22 - On our right hand new misery I saw, New pains, new executioners of wrath, That swarming peopled the first chasm.
Canto 1.12-22 *chasm = a large and deep and steep-sided opening on the earth's surface
- Hence in the second chasm we heard the ghosts,
Who jibber in low melancholy sounds,
With wide-stretch'd nostrils snort, and on themselves
Smite with their palms.†Canto 1.12-22chasm = a large gap or divide - Now must the trumpet sound for you, since yours
Is the third chasm.†Canto 1.12-22 - Still earnest on the pitch I gaz'd, to mark
All things whate'er the chasm contain'd, and those
Who burn'd within.†Canto 1.12-22 - If the right coast
Incline so much, that we may thence descend
Into the other chasm, we shall escape
Secure from this imagined pursuit.†Canto 1.23-34 - Down from the jutting beach
Supine he cast him, to that pendent rock,
Which closes on one part the other chasm.†Canto 1.23-34 - We from the bridge's head descended, where
To the eighth mound it joins, and then the chasm
Opening to view, I saw a crowd within
Of serpents terrible, so strange of shape
And hideous, that remembrance in my veins
Yet shrinks the vital current.†Canto 1.23-34 - As in that season, when the sun least veils
His face that lightens all, what time the fly
Gives way to the shrill gnat, the peasant then
Upon some cliff reclin'd, beneath him sees
Fire-flies innumerous spangling o'er the vale,
Vineyard or tilth, where his day-labour lies:
With flames so numberless throughout its space
Shone the eighth chasm, apparent, when the depth
Was to my view expos'd.†Canto 1.23-34 - a spectacle like this
Were but a thing of nought, to the' hideous sight
Of the ninth chasm.†Canto 1.23-34 - Thou hast not shewn in any chasm beside
This weakness.†Canto 1.23-34 - But Minos to this chasm last of the ten,
For that I practis'd alchemy on earth,
Has doom'd me.†Canto 1.23-34
Definitions:
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(1)
(chasm) a large and deep and steep-sided opening on the earth's surface; or (more rarely) any large gap
or:
a very large difference -- often of opinion - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)