ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Old English poetry is of two types, the heroic Germanic pre-Christian and the Christian. It has survived for the most part in four manuscripts. The first manuscript is called the Junius manuscript (also known as the Caedmon manuscript), which is an illustrated poetic anthology.

Detailed explanation-2: -Alliteration: the repetition of consonant sounds in words close to one another. Anglo-Saxon poetry is often called alliterative poetry. As it is used in Beowulf, alliteration literally gives “sounds effects” to the theater that was a scop’s rendition of a poem.

Detailed explanation-3: -the most important formal aspects of Anglo-Saxon poetry were stress and alliteration, that is the repetition of the same initial consonant sound. Each line was divided into two halves by a break or caesura and had 4 stresses.