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| "Death Be Not Proud" | from Holy Sonnets |
| "Death Be Not Proud" was written by | John Donne |
| 5 Reasons Death should not be proud: | 1. since rest and sleep, which are just a picture of Death, give pleasure, how much more pleasure must come from Death itself; 2. the best men go first with Death and find rest for their bones and freedom for their souls; 3. Death is a slave who cannot control fate, chance, and the will of kings and degenerate men; 4. Death wars with poisons and dwells with sicknkess. Death, then, has no reason to swell up and be proud; 5. Death will be gone forever. |
| "The last enemy that shall be destroyed.... | Death" |
| "On His Blindness" | John Milton |
| The Blind Poet | was John Milton |
| Greatest lesson from "On His Blindness" | "They also serve who only stand and wait" |
| apostrophe | addressing someone absent as if present or dead/inanimate as if alive |
| "Apostrophe to the Ocean" | illustrates man's helplessness against the ocean |
| "To Be or Not To Be" | Hamlet |
| Hamlet's decision | whether or not to kill himself |
| "How Do I Love Thee?" | Sonnet 43 |
| wrote Sonnet 43 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| Beowulf is believed to have been written around | 700. |
| Beowulf's universal theme | the story of a great leader who saves a people in great danger |
| Beowulf rules the people of Jutland for | 50 years. |
| The greatest of the Anglo-Saxon poems and the oldest surviving epic of any Germanic people | Beowulf |
| Beowulf's qualities of a traditional epic | 1. It is about a great national hero; 2. It is written in lofty language; 3. It contains supernatural elements; and 4. It explores the struggle of good and evil. |
| Beowulf battles | three monstrous and mysterious incarnations of evil |
| Beowulf first fights | with Grendel |
| Beowulf's second fight is | with Grendel's mother |
| Beowulf's final fight is | with dragon |
| How much time elapses between the second and third battles? | 50 years |
| The first literature of the Anglo-Saxons | poetry |
| Anglo-Saxon poetry was not written, but | passed down by reciting or singing |
| five characteristics of Anglo-Saxon literature | 1. the love of freedom; 2. responsiveness to nature; 3 strong religious convictions and a belief in Wyrd; 4. reverence for womanhood; 5. a devotion to glory as the ruling motive in every warrior's life |
| Wyrd | Fate |
| Anglo-Saxon poet | scop |
| gleeman | recited poems, but was not the originial poet |
| gleeman | could also be a chanter, a harper, a jester, or a juggler |
| pause | caesura |
| Anglo-Saxon poetry was composed of two half lines | separated by a caesura |
| accent | stressing certain syllables or words |
| alliteration | beginning words with the same consonant sounds |
| parallelisms | repetition of ideas in slightly different form |
| kennings | strong metaphorical expressions |
| mead-hall | the center of the Anglo-Saxon home where they ate and had entertainment |
| Spear-Danes | the warriors of Hrothgar |
| Scyld Sceffing | ancient founder of the Danish royal dynasty |
| The Seafarer speaks | of the vanity of things of the world and acknowledges that only those who fear God will find mercy in heaven. |
| "Honey-Mead" | a riddle |
| What is the chief characteristic of mead? | its ability to intoxicate man and cause him problems |
| wrote "Ecclesiastical History of the English People" | Venerable Bede |
| Beowulf takes place in | Denmark |
| Hrothgrar's mead-hall | Heorot |
| Why does the dragon plague Beowulf's kingdom? | A slave stole a cup from the dragon's gold-hoard. |
| irony of "The Seafarer" | In spite of the many hardships of life at sea, the seafarer still longs for it. |
| Why did King Edwin call a council of his chiefs and wise men? | to determine whether ohe and his people should embrace Christianity |
| What was the conclusion of the council? | to leave their pagan beliefs and follow the "new doctrine" of the missionary Paulinus |
| Where did Caedmon live and work | in a monastery |
| What gift was Caedmon given in a dream? | the gift of a poet |
| Hrothgar | king of the Spear-Danes |
| the monster Grendel | troubled the Spear-Danes |
| Beowulf | thane warrior |
| killed Grendel | Beowulf |
| killed Grendel's mother | Beowulf |
| killed the dragon | Beowulf |
| Wiglaf | a young warrior who accompanied Beowulf to the dragon's lair |
| King Edwin | king of Northumbria |
| Northumbria | center of Anglo-Saxon culture in England |
| Paulinus | a missionary sent by the pope to Northumbria in 601 |
| Caedmon | a simple herdsman who lived in a monastery in Northumbria and became a great Anglo-Saxon poet |
| founder of English prose | Alfred the Great, King of Wessex |
