<span>As how The Inferno was written, you will see how
vague Gustave Dore was in describing the details of Lucifer. It’s seen that
Satan/Lucifer has no actual character, but rather a form of negativity and
mockery of the Holy Trinity. The body is also shown to be stuck up to the waist
which made it vague, but some experts agreed on the fact that it shows the
futility of people’s immobility towards their life if they don’t move on to
improve it. Therefore, it shows that Lucifer is being depicted as evil, and
that evil means a man being useless in their life.</span>
I think it is personification, because personification means to make non living things sound real, and the lines 149-151 follow that. “The taut gut vibrating hummed and sang a swallow’s note.”
Is there a picture? For the gate den