Give an account of the Anglo Saxon epic (Beowulf)

Give an account of the Anglo Saxon epic (Beowulf):=>

 

The spirit of the heroic poetry is in it itself an epic spirit Heroic Poetry stand between epic and the balled. In its original form its series to act as a line between the two. It belongs to the class of long narrative poetry and treats the heroic exploits of some famous personalities. Here it approaches the epic. Again, it is metrical structure and present a narrative of war, love or of both. Here it comes very close to the ballad. Thus heroic poetry emerges into the pure epic on one side and the pure ballad of the other.

 

 

Background and the Age:

                                                Anglo-Saxon epic on heroic poetry is mainly associated with Beowulf. The earliest English literature is unwritten. Hence the story of Beowulf was not put down in writing and appeared only in a legendary form. The angles brought the story of Beowulf with the them the poem was made. Asharp controversy rages as to the date and place of composition of Beowulf. Some hold that the poem was composed in Germany and that it was brought to England by as the place of compositing and Yorkshire coast as the scare of the story. In the later contention it was believed that the poem was composed in sales wick and was brought over to England about the close of the fifth century. It was retouched and edited by a Christian poet about the year me thousand. However, the date of composition of the work makes it an ancient epic poem in the Teutonic world. The poem contains some three thousand one hundred eighty three lines.

 

 

Theme and subject matter of Achievement Beowulf :=> the story of Beowulf is quite fitting for epic poem. The poem deals with the story of a noble hero named Beowulf who fights three times for the solvation of the king of the Danes and his subjects. Beowulf has not been unfairly described as a knight- errort before the day of chivalry. To the help of Hrothgar, the venerable king of the Danes. Beowulf comes whose palace Herriot is wasted by the attack of a dreadful monster named Grendel.

 

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