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Features of Anglo - Saxon Poetry ATTITUDES • Rugged individualism • Love of beauty/splendor

Features of Anglo - Saxon Poetry ATTITUDES • Rugged individualism • Love of beauty/splendor • A passion for war • Closeness to the natural world (including fears and superstitions surrounding beasts). THEMES • Exile

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Features of Anglo - Saxon Poetry ATTITUDES • Rugged individualism • Love of beauty/splendor

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  1. Features of Anglo - Saxon Poetry ATTITUDES • Rugged individualism • Love of beauty/splendor • A passion for war • Closeness to the natural world (including fears and superstitions surrounding beasts)

  2. THEMES • • Exile • “How wretched I was, drifting through winter / On an ice-cold sea, whirled in sorrow, Alone in a world blown clear of love . . .” • • Fate (acceptance - the brave one goes out to meet it) • “. . .Wondering what Fate has willed and will do” • • Glorification of the past (elegy) • “Gone are the days when the kingdoms of earth flourished in glory. . .”

  3. POETIC DEVICES Strong rhythm, often four accented syllables* “in icy bands, bound with frost’ Caesura* - a pause in the middle of a line “I put myself back on the paths of the sea” Alliteration - repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words “Orchards blossom, the towns bloom . . .” Assonance - repetition of vowel sounds “With frozen chains, and hardship groaned . . .” Kenning - metaphorical names in compound form “whale road” “terror monger” * important for wandering poets who chanted aloud, so that lyrics could be easily memorized (Examples in this presentation come from “The Seafarer” and Beowulf)

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