LITERATURE QUESTIONS
EARLY BRITISH LITERATURE
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gold
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poetry
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a farm of his own
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leadership position
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Detailed explanation-1: -What was Caedmon’s gift? Caedmon’s gift was that he could compose beautiful religious poetry in English. How did Caedmon receive his gift? Caedmon received his gift in a dream, presumably sent by God.
Detailed explanation-2: -He falls asleep, and in a dream a man appears to him, and asks him to sing a song. Cædmon responds that he cannot sing, yet the man tells him to “Sing to me the beginning of all things". Cædmon is then able to sing verses and words that he had not heard of before.
Detailed explanation-3: -Caedmon, (flourished 658–680), first Old English Christian poet, whose fragmentary hymn to the creation remains a symbol of the adaptation of the aristocratic-heroic Anglo-Saxon verse tradition to the expression of Christian themes.