LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MEDIEVAL LITERATURE AND CULTURE
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The mock epic
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The lyric ballad
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The lai
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The heroic epic
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Detailed explanation-1: -The poet used several interesting literary devices in ‘Cædmon’s Hymn. ‘ These include alliteration, caesura, and allusion. Throughout the lines, the speaker praises God without going into any detail about stories in the Bible or how his own life was affected when he became devoutly Christian.
Detailed explanation-2: -Cædmon’s Hymn Bede’s text was written in Latin, but in several other manuscripts someone has added a translation into Old English. This is known as a ‘gloss’. Perhaps these glossators (people who wrote the glosses) were attempting to recover some of the ‘beauty and dignity’ of the original.
Detailed explanation-3: -Themes in “Caedmon’s Hymn” Poem It serves as not just praise for the Creator, but thanks for the world given to humanity. Most importantly, the end of the poem states that the world is not merely a gift given to humanity, but also something which must be cared for by men and their descendants.