Essay on The Tollund Man

an image that countbalances society's norms (Heaney ln 9-16). According to Enda Duffy, bogs or turfs are part of Ireland's landscape in which one can dig and find many treasures and other paraphernalia (Duffy 4/6/10). Heaney is relating his experience to Peter Glob's discovery of a woman's body at the bottom of a bog or turf. In both instances, women are seen as targets of death: one is sentenced to her death and the other is thrown away. Heaney is able to

Historians and archaeologists investigated Tollund man extensively through the wonderful preservations of his body which gave them hard evidence to support their theories about Tollund Man’s death. The Tollund Man was found on the 6th of May 1950 by two brothers at Silkeborg, Denmark, in a peat bog. He was positioned on his side in a cradle position, naked with a leather belt around his waist, a pointed sheepskin cap with a leather strap that was positioned firmly under his chin and a noose around his neck. The substances in the peat bog prevented the body from decomposing. The bog contains Sphagnum moss which creates acids in the water and grows a glass covering over the water blocking out oxygen and keeping in heat, all in which cause

with the corpse in the burial mound overlooking the sea. Including such heathen rites enables the poet to “communicate his Christian vision of pagan heroic life.”(Bloom 2). Additonally, earlier in the poem, the Danes, when under extreme pressure from Grendel, reverted to Satan-worship:

This epic poem depicts picturesque imagery of various kinds. It is acutely gruesome in many instances, such as the battle with Grendel and the description of hell’s captive and his mother. The

Beowulf is one of the greatest epics from early British literature history we have managed to salvage, and amidst the tales of brave heroes and mighty battles, there lies an interwoven theme of isolation and death. These two plagues to the human mind and body walk together in a correlated marriage within Beowulf’s many episodes. Death is an obvious theme; the alpha and omega of the poem are grandeur funerals (Beowulf, l. 26-52, 3114-3155) and loss is littered throughout Beowulf’s journey. Isolation, however, is a theme that is directly related to the death inside of Beowulf’s world, and needs further examination as to how and why. It seems that the evil creatures that fall to the hands of our mighty hero indulge this theory, but this thematic duo take more than just the lives of the monsters. Isolation followed by death sweeps up innocent characters as well, including Beowulf himself.

Grendel, the man-eating monster, decides he wants to show himself to the people of Hrothgar’s kingdom to prevent his loneliness. Instead of gaining friendship, Grendel is attacked and almost killed by Hrothgar’s warriors. Grendel intimidates the Danish warriors when he holds a dead body in front of

Attempting to purge him self of all blame, supporting his own twisted reality, this particular poem seems only to deny him that privilege. Taunting and provoking Plath, Hughes puts himself up on a pedestal of contentment. Throughout The Birthday Letters Hughes renders Plath’s death inexorable, claiming to be a bystander unable to prevent her attraction to the grave. A minotaur, in Greek mythology is a half man half bull creature that feeds on the flesh it finds within its labyrinth. Hughes metaphorically describes Plath’s slipping into madness as entering a labyrinth, implying that she would never get out and that ‘death’ was looming on her from around every corner. The poets use of sparse punctuality and enjambment make the poem fast paced and audibly interesting while Hughes uses sharp wit and sarcasm to tie Plath’s fury to her unconventional personality and not his tardiness. The final stanza places strong emphasis on use of personal pronoun “your mother”, “your risen father” and “your own corpse” show an accusatory, forceful tone. The juxtaposition of “Grave of your risen father” seems to foreshadow Plath’s own unavoidable downfall.

Hannah Kent's 'Burial Rites' is not only about Agnes' preparation for death but also about a pilgrimage of acceptance. Discuss. Imagine. Iceland, 1830s, you live in a town with a hypocritical and pseudo-religious populous and you're one of them, news has reached your remote farmlands of Kornsa that two men, the often vexed Natan among them, have been murdered at the, even more, remote farm of Illugastidir.

The setting is in a graveyard, as it mentions in the story ‘’bleak place overgrown with nettles was the churchyard’’. This negative language creates a barren and colourless setting and nettles in particular are seen as unfavourable objects. ‘’overgrown with nettles’’ states that it was deceived and not looked after. In addition ‘’the dark flat wilderness’’ is used to describe the marshes part of the setting, this shows that it is dark there and it states that there is nobody

In the poem, Grendel the ghastly monster of the Dane’s community was opposed to the belief of God and religion. This matter is what indeed lead

Death in this novel is less simple than just the end of life. Burial Rites places an emphasis on the fact that during 1830’s in Iceland many people were religious and superstitions. Superstitions can be dreams, omens, old wives’ tales, and potions/ healing powers. During this time many people believed in these sorts of things. For example, Natans dreams- he believes dreams mean something; he believes in his dreams and not in god. In some of his dreams he sees blood and death and soon after he was murdered. These superstitions can be important towards the storytelling and giving the reader an insight into what it would have been like in these

Grendel, the man-eating monster, who lives at the bottom of a mountain lake got disturbed by the “Song of Creation” lines 7-1, from Hrothgar's Danes in Herot Hall. Grendel was aggravated by the Dane’s celebration with drinking and their loud singing. Grendel rose up from the bottom of the lake and came to Herot Hall to take care of it himself, so he “Snatched up thirty men, smashed them unknowing in their beds, and ran out with their bodies” lines 37-8; “He never dared to touch king Hrothgar’s glorious throne, protected by God” In lines

In Beowulf, Grendel, a monster who haunts the moors, turns a prosperous kingdom into a land of death and despair. Hrothgar builds a beautiful mead hall where his men celebrate with feasts and toast their victories. One night, Grendel sneaks into the mead hall and murders thirty men. At daybreak, Hrothgar finds the results of Grendel’s violent midnight snack. Melancholy and confused, the king and his surviving men mourn the fate of their dead friends. The next night, Grendel once again brings death to Herot. He is “...so set on murder that no crime could ever be enough, no savage assault quench his lust for evil” (lines 50-53). Each day, the surviving warriors wake from their drunken sleep to find more men slaughtered. For the warriors, Herot

The many deaths of the Irish and how they were buried remind me of the Holocaust and how those people were buried. The dead Irish people were buried in “famine pits” (Daly 6) where the dead would be buried in “mass graves” (Daly 6). Many of these graves remain unmarked to this day. In some areas, the sea washes ashore some of the bones of those who died in the famine. The Irish people use this as a reminder of the hard times in the past.

Unwelcome to join in with the people of Heorot in their merriment, Grendel haunts them in the night, taking all joy out of the pleasures he can't enjoy. As the men lounge “insensible to pain / and human sorrow” (119-20), Grendel creeps amongst them, creating havoc and leaving “butchered corpses” (125) in his wake.