Assign-Tower+of+Song

Please refer to the following texts and YouTube site in order to answer the following questions and post your answers under the Discussion Tab. The first source that you should check out is one of Ms. Lefurgy's favorite artists - Leonard Cohen. Please click [|here] to see the video: Here are the lyrics too! Tower of Song Lyrics The second source is Longfellow's poem "Mezzo Cammin." The third source is Longfellow's translation of Dante's //Inferno Canto I// The last source is a Wikipedia summary of the entire //Inferno// from Dante's **//Divine Comedy//**.

Questions for I**//nferno Canto I//**, **//Mezzo Cammin//** and **//Tower//** **//of Song//**

Please post your answers: Be sure to check the Discussion heading in order to post and please sign your posts, or let us know which posts are yours so you get credit for your answers.

1. What ideas or themes can you derive for each work? 2. What ideas did Longfellow take away from translating Dante’s //Inferno// that appear in his poem Mezzo Cammin? 3. What phrases, symbols, objects or people exist in Leonard Cohen’s song that might be traced back to Longfellow or Dante and how are they related or matched? 4. What do you think a “tower of song” might represent?