Binyon’s Dante describes that the memory of the woods as “so bitter it is, death is scarce bitterer. But, for the good it was my hap to find,”(Binyon, 7-8), and in this excerpt Binyon describes how the feeling of sin that surrounds him is so bad that death is not that worse, which is very similar to Pinsky’s Dante when he describes death as “hardly more bitter and yet, to treat the good I found there as well I’ll tell what I saw”(Pinsky,5-6). In Binyon’s Dante Binyon uses the word “good” which although not bad, in comparison to “fortune” used in the Pinsky Dante shows that Binyon’s Dante does not express the despair that was going through Dante. However, the key similarity between the two translations is that they focus on the fact that despite the feeling and hard that the woods brought to Dante because he was lucky he wants to speak
Binyon’s Dante describes that the memory of the woods as “so bitter it is, death is scarce bitterer. But, for the good it was my hap to find,”(Binyon, 7-8), and in this excerpt Binyon describes how the feeling of sin that surrounds him is so bad that death is not that worse, which is very similar to Pinsky’s Dante when he describes death as “hardly more bitter and yet, to treat the good I found there as well I’ll tell what I saw”(Pinsky,5-6). In Binyon’s Dante Binyon uses the word “good” which although not bad, in comparison to “fortune” used in the Pinsky Dante shows that Binyon’s Dante does not express the despair that was going through Dante. However, the key similarity between the two translations is that they focus on the fact that despite the feeling and hard that the woods brought to Dante because he was lucky he wants to speak