October 7, 2020
Take a position on J.R.R. Tolkien’s view that Beowulf is an elegiac, rather than an epic, poem. Present the argument in relation to Tolkien’s definition (https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/06/02/slay…), […]
June 25, 2021
(1) Beowulf has an uncertain history: the action takes place around 500 CE; it was probably first written around 800 CE (author unknown); and the one […]
September 12, 2022
https://s3.amazonaws.com/edufiles.org/065342199_support_beowulf_O77iH9hMoejLiDS.pdf?response-content-disposition=filename%3Dbeowulf.pdf&X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIAJSBH2MC2JCUOGNGQ%2F20220912%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20220912T053740Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=1200&X-Amz-Signature=683612c4916668e41b5c0d4a914ed4d6228e88831bbffb6a0959f1f259d193f3 After reading the excerpt and listening to the short selection of Beowulf, what kinds of themes or messages do you see about […]
