LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MEDIEVAL LITERATURE AND CULTURE
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The poem could be easily sung in all churches and was widely accepted.
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The poem’s theme of alienation becomes familiar to Anglo-Saxon poetry.
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The poem illustrates Caedmon’s erudition and scholarship.
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The poem is widely believed to be the first written poem in Old English.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The 7th-century work Cædmon’s Hymn is often considered as the oldest surviving poem in English, as it appears in an 8th-century copy of Bede’s text, the Ecclesiastical History of the English People. Poetry written in the mid 12th century represents some of the latest post-Norman examples of Old English.
Detailed explanation-2: -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.
Detailed explanation-3: -Caedmon was one of the first people to compose poetry in the English language, making him the founder of English literature as we know it today. In Caedmon’s day, English was spoken and performed, but Latin and Greek were the languages of Christianity.
Detailed explanation-4: -Cædmon’s Hymn is thought to be the earliest composed Old English poem, composed between 658 and 680. The sole source of original information about Cædmon’s life and work is Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People .