ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

DANTE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The style of cultured poetry to which Dante belongs from the beginning of his literary work was:
A
storm and stress
B
New poets
C
Lauds
D
Dolce Stil Novo
E
The Angelic Woman
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -dolce stil nuovo, (Italian: “sweet new style”), nuovo also spelled Novo, the style of a group of 13th–14th-century Italian poets, mostly Florentines, whose vernacular sonnets, canzones, and ballate celebrate a spiritual and idealized view of love and womanhood in a way that is sincere, delicate, and musical.

Detailed explanation-2: -Dante is considered the greatest Italian poet, best known for The Divine Comedy, an epic poem that is one of the world’s most important works of literature. The poem, which is divided into three sections, follows a man, generally assumed to be Dante himself, as he visits Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise.

Detailed explanation-3: -Terza rima is a verse form composed of iambic tercets (three-line groupings). The rhyme scheme for this form of poetry is “aba bcb cdc, etc.” The second line of each tercet sets the rhyme for the following tercet, and thus supplying the verse with a common thread, a way to link the stanzas.

Detailed explanation-4: -Italian poet and scholar Dante Alighieri is best known for his masterpiece La Commedia (known in English as The Divine Comedy), which is universally considered one of world literature’s greatest poems.

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