PPT-Beowulf and the

Funeral Ritual By Chris and Noah Introduction 3 funerals Shield Sheafson Hildeburgs relatives and Beowulf A fourth The Lay of the Last Survivor Each funeral represents a change in the storyin the setting plot or . 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.. Epic . Approximately 3,200 lines long –. Relatively short as epics go!. Estimates of the date of composition range between 700 and 1000 . a.d. .. genre . ·. Alliterative verse; elegy; resembles heroic epic, though smaller in scope than most classical epics. 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. 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. Beowulf. (pg. 18 ). Beowulf. in Old English. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4L7VTH8ii_8. Music Video. http. ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiBaSqO7n9U. The Monster Grendel. …. 1. What phrase points to Grendel’s evil nature?. Alliteration is the repetition of consonant sounds in words (usually at the beginning of the word) that are close together.. Example:. P. eter . P. i. p. er . p. icked a . p. eck of . p. ickled . p. 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.. Epic. – long, narrative poem that recounts the adventures of a hero – narratives about larger than life characters.. The Characteristics of a Hero are:. is a great leader and identified with particular people or society. 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 . Few people read in this period. Oral tradition – was performed and/or sung by a Bard (. Scop. ) from memory in Old English . This is why there are often . several versions of the . same story. . Scops. Beowulf at the movies - 2007. Part of the treasure discovered in a ship-burial of c.500 at Sutton . Hoo. in East Anglia – excavated in 1939. . The Sutton Hoo ship and a modern reconstruction. The value of .