Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 20 AIL 1906 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Dante's Opening in Longfellow's English
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The idea
The Inferno opens that midway upon the journey of our life the speaker found himself within a forest dark, for the straightforward pathway had been lost. Three lines, and the stanza shape is Dante's. What has happened to the sound is a separate question.
In practice
Three lines, and a lost path.
Where people slip
The stanza is Dante's shape.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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