A glimpse of everything

Abstract

Very rarely is one able to extract from a work of literature, or any work for that matter, a truly profound insight into a person's most defining views on life, the universe, and existence. Alighieri's The Divine Comedy, however, remains one of these works. With a journey to reach not only a turning point in an individual man's life, but the very peak of the universe as it was believed to exist, this poem remains one of the grandest, and few, works to take the whole of existence into account in its contemplations.