All 11 Uses
lament
in
Dante's Inferno -- translated by Cary
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- Here sighs with lamentations and loud moans
Resounded through the air pierc'd by no star,
That e'en I wept at entering.†Canto 1.1-11lamentations = passionate expressions of grief or sorrow - what doth aggrieve them thus, That they lament so loud?
Canto 1.1-11 *lament = express grief or regret
- For certain on the brink
I found me of the lamentable vale,
The dread abyss, that joins a thund'rous sound
Of plaints innumerable.†Canto 1.1-11lamentable = regrettablestandard suffix: The suffix "-able" means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable. - When they arrive before the ruinous sweep,
There shrieks are heard, there lamentations, moans,
And blasphemies 'gainst the good Power in heaven.†Canto 1.1-11lamentations = passionate expressions of grief or sorrow - Here ceas'd the lamentable sound;
And I continu'd thus: "Still would I learn
More from thee, farther parley still entreat.†Canto 1.1-11lamentable = regrettablestandard suffix: The suffix "-able" means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable. - But on mine ear
Sudden a sound of lamentation smote,
Whereat mine eye unbarr'd I sent abroad.†Canto 1.1-11lamentation = passionate expression of grief or sorrow - Their lids all hung suspended, and beneath
From them forth issu'd lamentable moans,
Such as the sad and tortur'd well might raise.†Canto 1.1-11lamentable = regrettablestandard suffix: The suffix "-able" means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable. - When o'er it he had paus'd, my master spake:
"Say who wast thou, that at so many points
Breath'st out with blood thy lamentable speech?"†Canto 1.12-22 - Barbariccia, as the rest,
That chance lamenting, four in flight dispatch'd
From the' other coast, with all their weapons arm'd.†Canto 1.12-22lamenting = expressing grief or regret - These in the flame with ceaseless groans deplore
The ambush of the horse, that open'd wide
A portal for that goodly seed to pass,
Which sow'd imperial Rome; nor less the guile
Lament they, whence of her Achilles 'reft
Deidamia yet in death complains.†Canto 1.23-34lament = express grief or regret - Soon as we came
O'er the last cloister in the dismal rounds
Of Malebolge, and the brotherhood
Were to our view expos'd, then many a dart
Of sore lament assail'd me, headed all
With points of thrilling pity, that I clos'd
Both ears against the volley with mine hands.†Canto 1.23-34
Definitions:
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(1)
(lament) to express grief or regret
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Although lament typically refers to a feeling or simple vocal expression, it can refer to a vocal expression as complex as a sad song or poem. It can even refer to sad, but non-vocal music -- as when Tennessee Williams references background music in A Streetcar Named Desire.