Dante stated that Nature was right in stopping in the creation of the Giants. If they were still on earth, people would be unable to defend themselves from the Giants. Dante is thanking the goddess of Nature and Earth, Gaia, for not giving birth to anymore giants. Third, Dante vividly describes the first giant by using this simile, “his face appeared as long and full / As the bronze pinecone of St. Peter’s at Rome” (267). This colossal pinecone was made of bronze and resided in St. Peter’s Basilica, but was later moved. Fourth, Dante, the writer, uses a reference to show the size of the giants. “The bank, which was an apron for him / Down from his middle, showed above it such height / Three men of Friesland could not boast to come / Up to his hair” (267). Even though the giants are submerged waist down into a pit, the length of their torso to their hair is so tall, three tall Friesland men could not reach his hair. The men of Friesland are from the northwest of the Netherlands, and the men there are generally
Dante stated that Nature was right in stopping in the creation of the Giants. If they were still on earth, people would be unable to defend themselves from the Giants. Dante is thanking the goddess of Nature and Earth, Gaia, for not giving birth to anymore giants. Third, Dante vividly describes the first giant by using this simile, “his face appeared as long and full / As the bronze pinecone of St. Peter’s at Rome” (267). This colossal pinecone was made of bronze and resided in St. Peter’s Basilica, but was later moved. Fourth, Dante, the writer, uses a reference to show the size of the giants. “The bank, which was an apron for him / Down from his middle, showed above it such height / Three men of Friesland could not boast to come / Up to his hair” (267). Even though the giants are submerged waist down into a pit, the length of their torso to their hair is so tall, three tall Friesland men could not reach his hair. The men of Friesland are from the northwest of the Netherlands, and the men there are generally