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Beowulf: The Poetry of Beowulf

Beowulf: The Poetry of Beowulf. alliteration. Beowulf: The Poetry of Beowulf. The Anglo-Saxon oral poet also used the poetic device of alliteration . G rendel g ongan , g odes yrre bær ; M ynte se m anscaða m anna cynnes. Beowulf: The Poetry of Beowulf.

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Beowulf: The Poetry of Beowulf

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  1. Beowulf: The Poetry of Beowulf alliteration

  2. Beowulf: The Poetry of Beowulf • The Anglo-Saxon oral poet also used the poetic device of alliteration. • Grendel gongan, godesyrrebær; • Mynte se manscaðamanna cynnes

  3. Beowulf: The Poetry of Beowulf • Find examples of alliteration in Burton Raffel’s translation of lines 1-5: Out from the marsh, from the foot of misty Hills and bogs, bearing God’s hatred, Grendel came, hoping to kill Anyone he could trap on this trip to high Herot.

  4. Consider these lines penned by another one of my communications superheroes, the poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, in her poem Autumn Daybreak: Tardy, and somewhat south of east,The sun will rise at length, made knownMore by the meagre light increasedThan by a disk in splendour shown...

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