Beowulf is considered one of the most old english epic poem.it talks about beowulf who comes from far to beat the mortal enenmy of the area monster grindel.the people and place are both germanic.
since the current day there is no consensus about who wrote the poem and in which time,and the literary men are still in confusion about the writer and the time.so it is good thing to go inside the poem and see what does it talk about and thus you know the profile.
through the author's personality ,the writer could be on of thee following:
1.the first speaker -person of the poem so he might said the poem and related it to another one to hide him self or conveying a message.
2.Alfred the great ,who was the famous english king who ruled England and fought the danes and he was well-known by fighting the danes ,also Alfred the great encourages the education by building schools and he him self was a translator from latin to old english ,so he may changed the content of the epic poem relating it to his own ,and as that era was the era of figurative language we could did that to let people know him and his qualities indirectly.the common denominators among Alfred and bewoulf are:
a.bewoulf was hero,and Alfred was too.
b.bewoulffought for his people's freedom,and such did Alfred
c.they kept the door opend to the next generations to be like them.
3.Bewoulf him self could be true persona or false one as deor and caedmon who was lay worker on the monastery of whitby in northumbria.
4.the inns and monks who were ,in effect,the guardians of culture and the only people who could write and read before the fourteenth century ,and fortanutely the cultural heritage they preserved wasn't in latin ,the langauge of the chrch ,but in old english.they might did so to:
1.express the idea of mortal life ,and since you are dead why to die with no glory or victory.
2.to stress and show the one own's ability in life and how the man can do anything by depending on his/her abilities.
3.preserving the old english heritage by saying the poem in old english .
4.to let the door opened to the coming generations and convey a message of heroism.
5.to express the intelligence of the monks ,if they really were the writers of the epic poem.
since the current day there is no consensus about who wrote the poem and in which time,and the literary men are still in confusion about the writer and the time.so it is good thing to go inside the poem and see what does it talk about and thus you know the profile.
through the author's personality ,the writer could be on of thee following:
1.the first speaker -person of the poem so he might said the poem and related it to another one to hide him self or conveying a message.
2.Alfred the great ,who was the famous english king who ruled England and fought the danes and he was well-known by fighting the danes ,also Alfred the great encourages the education by building schools and he him self was a translator from latin to old english ,so he may changed the content of the epic poem relating it to his own ,and as that era was the era of figurative language we could did that to let people know him and his qualities indirectly.the common denominators among Alfred and bewoulf are:
a.bewoulf was hero,and Alfred was too.
b.bewoulffought for his people's freedom,and such did Alfred
c.they kept the door opend to the next generations to be like them.
3.Bewoulf him self could be true persona or false one as deor and caedmon who was lay worker on the monastery of whitby in northumbria.
4.the inns and monks who were ,in effect,the guardians of culture and the only people who could write and read before the fourteenth century ,and fortanutely the cultural heritage they preserved wasn't in latin ,the langauge of the chrch ,but in old english.they might did so to:
1.express the idea of mortal life ,and since you are dead why to die with no glory or victory.
2.to stress and show the one own's ability in life and how the man can do anything by depending on his/her abilities.
3.preserving the old english heritage by saying the poem in old english .
4.to let the door opened to the coming generations and convey a message of heroism.
5.to express the intelligence of the monks ,if they really were the writers of the epic poem.
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