LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS
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Beowulf
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Dream of the Road
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The Seafarer
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The Wanderer
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Detailed explanation-1: -Beowulf was one of the first long poems in English.
Detailed explanation-2: -"Beowulf” is the oldest surviving epic poem in the English language and the earliest piece of vernacular European literature.
Detailed explanation-3: -Beowulf (/ˈbeɪəwʊlf/; Old English: Bēowulf [ˈbeːowuɫf]) is an Old English epic poem in the tradition of Germanic heroic legend consisting of 3, 182 alliterative lines.
Detailed explanation-4: -Beowulf is the longest epic poem in Old English, the language spoken in Anglo-Saxon England before the Norman Conquest. It tells the breathtaking story of a struggle between the hero, Beowulf, and a bloodthirsty monster called Grendel.
Detailed explanation-5: -This is one reason why Pound referred to The Waste Land as the longest poem in the English language. I remember The hyacinth garden. Those are pearls that were his eyes, yes!