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In literature, "metamorphose" is employed as a richly evocative term denoting profound transformation, both in a physical and metaphysical sense. For example, Paramahansa Yogananda writes of beings like flowers, fish, or animals briefly assuming "astral" human forms, suggesting a transient journey between the natural and the spiritual realms [1]. In contrast, Dante's depiction in The Divine Comedy utilizes the word in a more sinister context, where it contributes to the grotesque and unsettling atmosphere of the Inferno, hinting that even the most steadfast features are subject to disturbing alteration [2].
  1. Flowers or fish or animals can metamorphose themselves, for a time, into astral men.
    — from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
  2. 120 The one fell prone, erect the other drew, With cruel eyes continuing to glare, ’Neath which their muzzles metamorphose knew.
    — from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

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