"Beowulf" perhaps our most widely translated window into our Anglo- Saxon past, has become somewhat clouded over the years. ... The intent of the following content is to provide criticism relating two separate translations of "Beowulf". ... Seamus Heaney's "Beowulf" was derived by the Irish scholar after he was recognized and granted status as Nobel laureate. ... Heaney does a fine job bringing "Beowulf" and its themes to the less experienced reader, and his words have feel, but it truly lacks the flair of the lost language. ... It is best to come to personal conclusions regarding ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Beowulf clearly encompasses many Christian elements from characters to themes throughout the story. ... Beowulf, the character, is an attempt at adapting Jesus to the Anglo-Saxon cultural vision of a hero. ... Thus Beowulf is undoubtedly filled with Christian elements. ... As one can see both Kimble and Klaeber are very much intrigued by the author's emphasis on these very non warrior like qualities in a person who warrior exploits rival many literary figures before him. ... Bloomfield summarizes the support of his argument, "If [Beowulf] author conceived of Beowulf as the Rex Justu...

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As an epic tale of heroes and monsters, Beowulf gives its readers much excitement and adventure, but Beowulf's importance is more than just literary. ... The author of Beowulf generally supports the traditional Anglo-Saxon views of women by praising Wealhtheow, condemning Grendel's mother, and showing the need to suppress feminine forces like Wyrd; however, he does offer some criticism of these views by creating sympathy for Grendel's mother, allowing Wealhtheow to assert herself in the interest of her husband and children, and revealing masculine fear of feminine power. ... Fo...

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Gawain and Binary Opposition As a contemporary American reader, it is all right to assume that the first scene in which the particular character is involved drastically shapes our opinion of characters in a particular novel or poem. Immediately we jump to conclusions about what is right and what is ...

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The poems Judith and Beowulf were incased in three other works of prose but represented the earliest wholly vernacular works in what would establish the English canon. ... A "howl" is a prolonged instinctive animal cry and Ginsberg's poem forcefully depicts the sense of a "sudden, angry eruption of instincts long thwarted, of the release of excluded human and literary energies"(Breslin, 227). "Howl" violated all the artistic canons of the period and provoked a literary, social, and even legal scandal. ...

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• Grade Level: High School