Italo Calvino
Dante discusses how one's imagination can carry them away from the present world. The passage says, "O imagination, you who have the power to impose yourself on out faculties and our wills, stealing us away from the outer world and carrying us off into an inner one, so that even if a thousand trumpets were to sound we would not hear them," (82). Our imaginations possess the ability to create an entire different world in which one controls every aspect. We can become so detached from reality as we venture deeper into our imaginary world. Dante talks about the two different aspects to imagination. He says "one that starts with the word and arrives at the visual image, and the one that starts with the visual image and arrives at the verbal expression,"(83). We may start with an idea in our minds and then incorporate it in a piece of art work, movie or book. On the other hand, one may encounter this idea and their i...
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