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| − | I found it interesting that Eliot switches back and forth between referencing the ''Inferno'' and the ''Purgatorio'' - because it seemed to give a few subtle glimmers of redemption. ''Purgatorio'' has nearly the same trials and sufferings as ''Inferno'' but to a different end: | + | I found it interesting that Eliot switches back and forth between referencing the ''Inferno'' and the ''Purgatorio'' - because it seemed to give a few subtle glimmers of redemption. ''Purgatorio'' has nearly the same trials and sufferings as ''Inferno'' but to a different end: salvation rather than perpetual punishment. It seems that this correlates with the glimmer of peacefulness Eliot includes at the end of ''The Waste Land.'' |
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