LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MEDIEVAL LITERATURE AND CULTURE
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Caedmon’s Hymn
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Beowulf
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The Wanderer
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The Dream of the Rood
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Detailed explanation-1: -In a dream the unknown poet beholds a beautiful tree-the rood, or cross, on which Christ died. The rood tells him its own story. Forced to be the instrument of the saviour’s death, it describes how it suffered the nail wounds, spear shafts, and insults along with Christ to fulfill God’s will.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Dream of the Rood is one of the Christian poems in the corpus of Old English literature and an example of the genre of dream poetry. Like most Old English poetry, it is written in alliterative verse.
Detailed explanation-3: -The poem, for the purposes of study, is often divided into three parts: the introductory section, the speech of the cross, and the closing section (“Dream of the Rood”).
Detailed explanation-4: -Oral-formulaic theory was originally developed, principally by Parry in the 1920s, to explain how the Homeric epics could have been passed down through many generations purely through word of mouth and why its formulas appeared as they did.