All 9 Uses of
wrath
in
Dante's Inferno -- translated by Longfellow
- "My son," the courteous Master said to me, "All those who perish in the wrath of God Here meet together out of every land; And ready are they to pass o'er the river, Because celestial Justice spurs them on, So that their fear is turned into desire.†
Canto 1.1-11
- As he who listens to some great deceit That has been done to him, and then resents it, Such became Phlegyas, in his gathered wrath.†
Canto 1.1-11
- But tell me, those within the fat lagoon, Whom the wind drives, and whom the rain doth beat, And who encounter with such bitter tongues, Wherefore are they inside of the red city Not punished, if God has them in his wrath, And if he has not, wherefore in such fashion?†
Canto 1.1-11
- O blind cupidity, O wrath insane, That spurs us onward so in our short life, And in the eternal then so badly steeps us!†
Canto 1.12-22
- And he in the midst, who at his breast is gazing, Is the great Chiron, who brought up Achilles; That other Pholus is, who was so wrathful.†
Canto 1.12-22 *
- And I unto the Guide: "Tell him to stir not, And ask what crime has thrust him here below, For once a man of blood and wrath I saw him."†
Canto 1.23-34
- He answered me: "Within there are tormented Ulysses and Diomed, and thus together They unto vengeance run as unto wrath.†
Canto 1.23-34
- And unto him my Guide: "Soul idiotic, Keep to thy horn, and vent thyself with that, When wrath or other passion touches thee.†
Canto 1.23-34
- Clamp never bound together wood with wood So strongly; whereat they, like two he-goats, Butted together, so much wrath o'ercame them.†
Canto 1.23-34
Definition:
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(wrath) extreme anger or angry punishment