PPT-The Coming of Beowulf

p 33 Millennium 1 Guided Analysis Read lines 1 4 What is the epithet used to refer to Beowulf and what does it mean Beowulf is referred to as thane which means noble warrior . Introducing the Epic. Literary Focus: The Epic Hero. The Poetry of . Beowulf: . Caesuras, Alliteration, and Kennings. Feature Menu. the first great work of . English national literature.. the epic story of the hero Beowulf, who fights the demonic monster Grendel.. When? Where? Who?. We may say that . Beowulf. was composed somewhere in England between about 521 AD . and1026 . AD . We . do not know for sure where in England the poem was composed. . Nor . do we know if the poem was composed by a single author, or whether it is the result of the merging together of ballads by different authors, nor whether the poem was significantly altered subsequent to its first written form.. Alliteration. The repetition of consonant sounds in words that are close to one another. Often at the beginning of words. Increases poem’s rhythmic and musical effects. Makes a poem’s lines memorable. Beowulf: . Context Review. Composed in . England. by an . unknown Anglo-Saxon poet . (c. 750). Set in . Scandinavia. just . before Anglo-Saxon migration . (c. 520). Celts . reside in England during . Friedrich Nietzsche . “He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you.”. J. R. R. Tolkien. Poet unknown. Anglo-Saxon and Old English. Christian (but with a bit of pagan tradition). Epic . poem (with 3,182 lines). Epic. = a very long poem that tells the adventures of a hero. Epic Hero . = a larger-than-life character who has great adventures, often boasts, and values personal appearance/identity. What is an epic?. Literary Genre of . Beowulf. Epic. :A. long narrative poem in elevated . style.It. presents a character (s) of high degree and details important events that have a national, worldwide, or cosmic setting.(. Huh?. Why Study Beowulf?. So what?. It is the oldest piece of literature in the English language.. It is the earliest European epic writing in the vernacular, rather than in Latin.. It teaches us about the development of the English language.. Composed in Old English. Alliterative measure. Oral epic handed down. Archetypal tales of monsters, god-fashioned weapons, descents to the underworld, fights with dragons, and hero’s quest to save a community threatened by evil. my.hrw.com. Username: ggruet1. Password: ggruet1. Beowulf. Warm-up: what are the characteristics of an epic poem?. Enrichment Activity. Take out vocabulary words.. Using your list of words, select ten that you feel comfortable with using.. Geats. ?. Reading Strategy p38. What events preceded the dragon’s attack on the . Geats. ?. The theft of a gem-studded cup by someone who accidentally stumbles on the entrance to the stone tower. . The Anglo-Saxons: 449 - 1066. 449 AD: Germanic mercenaries arrived from the Northern coasts of Europe to attack the Britons. Angles, Saxons, Jutes. By 500 AD, many invaders had settled.. . . . Archaeology has revealed much of the Anglo-Saxons, through cemeteries. The Anglo-Saxon period is the earliest recorded time period in English history. . The Anglo-Saxon period ranges from 449-1066. . It ends with the Battle of Hastings where the French, under the leadership of William the Conqueror invaded England. . - Unknown – the poem has been translated several times (the version we are working with is translated by Seamus Heaney). G. enre . - Alliterative . verse; elegy; resembles heroic epic, though smaller in scope than most classical .