Epic poetry

It was an epic of the Germanic time, a poem of a noble man with high power, who strived to be a victorious hero. Beowulf is one of the oldest poems of the old English language to have survived (Raffel 30). As a story that has withstood this epic and heroic-age, Beowulf shows how, for the Anglo-Saxon cultures of the time, the value these cultures placed on war and what they considered to be a hero. Written around the eighth and tenth centuries, “surviving in a single tattered manuscript, its edges

Aeneid by Virgil is an epic war poetry written in the 19 B.C.E based on the Trojan War. The poem narrates a story of a Trojan who visited Italy where he came the Romans’ ancestor. In the context of the poem, gods have much quoted manipulating; plotting and working against humans they abhor (Virgil & Ferry, n.d.). Despite the god 's cunning behaviors, their actions end up putting destiny back on its proper course. Gods, future, and fate are essential aspects of Greek epic poetry .in most Greek god’s

Epic poems have a unique set of characteristics that distinguish them from just an ordinary poem. An epic poem must contain a hero that is male, noble, and of importance to society who gives long formal speeches and travels over a vast setting. In the epic poem, Beowulf, the reader can see distinct Anglo-Saxon political, economic, and religious values in the actions of the characters and the things happening around them. Wealth in the Anglo-Saxon society, as seen in Beowulf, was used as a means of

divergent genres, namely epics and lyrics, is the expression of love, which through Homer and Catullus, shows us how love can be expressed as erotic, familial, or as a love of place by the protagonists and secondary characters, despite whether it is the primary or secondary theme. In Greek literature a prominent author is Homer, whom we don’t know if actually existed or if ‘Homer’ is a pseudonym for a collective group of writers. Homer is popular for writing epic poetry, which follows the heroic

pattern for the genre, neatly fitting the definition of a primary epic (that is, one that grows out of oral tradition). In The Odyssey, Homer employs most of the literary and poetic devices associated with epics: catalogs, digressions, long speeches, journeys or quests, various trials or tests of the hero, similes, metaphors, and divine intervention. Homer composed The Odyssey in a meter known as dactylic hexameter, which gives the epic its elevated style. Each line has six metrical feet. The first

end. "Beowulf" meets all the features of an epic poem: it is a long narration of a national hero ( he is recognized, rewarded and glorified by the king himself and his people), his travel on the sea, his adventures and the heroic episodes he's the central figure in. Moreover, the main protagonist, Beowulf, is a brave young man, like Gilgamesh, Achilles or Hercules, with more-than-human strength and wiser, more courageous than others. Unlike the other epic heroes we have studied untill now, Beowulf

remember the most popular epics ever in the history, Iliad. Iliad is an epic poem that tells the story of the Trojan War and the Odyssey which have been considered as the most important Greek epic poem for the blind epic poet, Homer. Despite the doubts in his presence whether he was the one who wrote the epic or not however, his epic poetry is still studying till this century. If we travel back in time to the century that Homer has been written this epic, we will find that his epic is dating back to the

Anglo-Saxon poetry was often orally transmitted and was meant for entertainment in the mead hall. it is an old English term for a feast hall, which was often a single building with a single room. Which was meant for feasting and watching the entertainment which was often poetry. “Anglo-Saxon Poetry (or Old English Poetry) encompasses verse written during the 600-year Anglo-Saxon period of British history, from the mid-fifth century to the Norman Conquest of 1066.” (Anglo-Saxon_Poetry, n.d.). One

Beowulf: A Hero of Epic Proportions “And so Beowulf’s followers/ Rode…/ Crying that no better king had ever/ Lived, …/ So open to his people, so deserving of praise” (l. 838-42). Beowulf was originally recited in Old English by scops in mead halls. The epic of Beowulf was first written down by an anonymous Christian monk around 700 A.D. Since then, Beowulf has achieved levels of fame unrivaled by any other work of literature. Beowulf has survived as a literary masterpiece for over 1,300 years

The epic poem Beowulf describes a famous hero of the Anglo-Saxon period. The hero Beowulf, is a seemingly unstoppable person with the inhuman traits required of a hero. He uses his courage and physical strength to put his people before himself. He encounters