18. Paradise XV, XVI, XVII
Channel: openyalecourseselect
Date: 2012-12-11

In Paradise XVII Cacciaguida's prophetic speech foretells Dante's exilic future. The last words of Dante's ancestor are an encouragement to write about his journey through the afterlife world. Poetry, and specifically the poetry of exile, which entails a condition of dislocation, becomes the way through which the self can re-enter history.