logging in or signing up anglo- saxon- poetry aSGuest63418 Download Post to : URL : Related Presentations : Share Add to Flag Embed Email Send to Blogs and Networks Add to Channel Uploaded from authorPOINT lite Insert YouTube videos in PowerPont slides with aS Desktop Copy embed code: (To copy code, click on the text box) Embed: URL: Thumbnail: WordPress Embed Customize Embed The presentation is successfully added In Your Favorites. Views: 1564 Category: Entertainment License: All Rights Reserved Like it (1) Dislike it (0) Added: August 28, 2010 This Presentation is Public Favorites: 1 Presentation Description No description available. Comments Posting comment... Premium member Presentation Transcript Anglo-Saxon Poetry : Anglo-Saxon Poetry “The Seafarer,” “The Wanderer,” & “The Wife’s Lament “The Seafarer” : What is this poem about? A seafarer who drifts away from human companionship Even though he is “drowning in desolation” he continues to return to the sea Life no matter where it is spent is exile The only home is heaven “The Seafarer” “The Seafarer”Regular Rhythms : “This tale is true, and mine. It tells” “But there isn’t a man on earth so proud” Purpose to oral tradition: helps with memorization of lines “The Seafarer”Regular Rhythms “The Seafarer”Kennings : Eagle’s screams: caw Summer’s sentinel: the cuckoo The whale’s home: the sea Purpose to oral tradition: poetic words used for imagery and memorization “The Seafarer”Kennings “The Seafarer”Assonance : “To the open ocean, breaking oaths” Purpose to oral tradition: helps with rhythm and memorization “The Seafarer”Assonance “The Seafarer”Alliteration : “This tale is true, and mine. It tells” “My soul roams with the sea, the whales Home, wandering to the widest corners Of the world, returning ravenous with desire, Flying solitary, screaming…” Provides rhythm and repetition “The Seafarer”Alliteration “The Seafarer”Theme : Wandering With the Anglo-Saxon belief of home, to be wandering was to have nothing ExileThe Anglo-Saxons did not have patriotism to their country, but to their lord, so to be exiled was to be forsaken and they feared this “The Seafarer”Theme Elegy & Lyrics : Lyrical Poetryexpresses the thoughts and feeling of a single speaker's life Elegiac Poetrya type of lyric poetry where the loss of someone or something is mourned Elegy & Lyrics Question : How is “The Seafarer” an example of elegiac poetry and lyrical poetry? Question “The Wanderer” : What is this poem about? Wanderer has experienced a complete collapse His lord died He has no purpose He has no one to promise his loyalty to He is left to wander in search of a new lord “The Wanderer” “The Wanderer”Kenning : Lines 20-26 How does the kenning “gold-lord” help you infer the wanderer’s goal? “The Wanderer”Kenning “The Wanderer”Kenning Answer : Suggests wander’s livelihood is intimately connected with his having a lord, or one who will provide him with gold, or money. “The Wanderer”Kenning Answer “The Wanderer”Alliteration and Assonance : Read lines 87-92 What images and ideas do alliteration and assonance bind together in these lines? “The Wanderer”Alliteration and Assonance Answer : Alliteration: “walls wondrous high,” serpent shapes,” and “carnage…and conquering fate” Assonance: “warriors” with “memorials” Answer “The Wanderer”Caesura : How are caesuras used in “The Wanderer?” Why are caesuras used? “The Wanderer”Caesura “The Wanderer”Caesura Answer : They are breaks in the middle of a line Add to rhythmic element, add to meaning they either echo an idea or oppose an idea “The Wanderer”Caesura Answer “The Wanderer”Theme : Isolation “The Wanderer”Theme “The Wife’s Lament”Overview : Speaker has been sent into exile by her husband. She still longs for her husband She is angry and bitter about her friendless, lonely, joyless fate she must endure. Be able to answer essential question on pg. 31 “The Wife’s Lament”Overview You do not have the permission to view this presentation. In order to view it, please contact the author of the presentation.
anglo- saxon- poetry aSGuest63418 Download Post to : URL : Related Presentations : Share Add to Flag Embed Email Send to Blogs and Networks Add to Channel Uploaded from authorPOINT lite Insert YouTube videos in PowerPont slides with aS Desktop Copy embed code: (To copy code, click on the text box) Embed: URL: Thumbnail: WordPress Embed Customize Embed The presentation is successfully added In Your Favorites. Views: 1564 Category: Entertainment License: All Rights Reserved Like it (1) Dislike it (0) Added: August 28, 2010 This Presentation is Public Favorites: 1 Presentation Description No description available. Comments Posting comment... Premium member Presentation Transcript Anglo-Saxon Poetry : Anglo-Saxon Poetry “The Seafarer,” “The Wanderer,” & “The Wife’s Lament “The Seafarer” : What is this poem about? A seafarer who drifts away from human companionship Even though he is “drowning in desolation” he continues to return to the sea Life no matter where it is spent is exile The only home is heaven “The Seafarer” “The Seafarer”Regular Rhythms : “This tale is true, and mine. It tells” “But there isn’t a man on earth so proud” Purpose to oral tradition: helps with memorization of lines “The Seafarer”Regular Rhythms “The Seafarer”Kennings : Eagle’s screams: caw Summer’s sentinel: the cuckoo The whale’s home: the sea Purpose to oral tradition: poetic words used for imagery and memorization “The Seafarer”Kennings “The Seafarer”Assonance : “To the open ocean, breaking oaths” Purpose to oral tradition: helps with rhythm and memorization “The Seafarer”Assonance “The Seafarer”Alliteration : “This tale is true, and mine. It tells” “My soul roams with the sea, the whales Home, wandering to the widest corners Of the world, returning ravenous with desire, Flying solitary, screaming…” Provides rhythm and repetition “The Seafarer”Alliteration “The Seafarer”Theme : Wandering With the Anglo-Saxon belief of home, to be wandering was to have nothing ExileThe Anglo-Saxons did not have patriotism to their country, but to their lord, so to be exiled was to be forsaken and they feared this “The Seafarer”Theme Elegy & Lyrics : Lyrical Poetryexpresses the thoughts and feeling of a single speaker's life Elegiac Poetrya type of lyric poetry where the loss of someone or something is mourned Elegy & Lyrics Question : How is “The Seafarer” an example of elegiac poetry and lyrical poetry? Question “The Wanderer” : What is this poem about? Wanderer has experienced a complete collapse His lord died He has no purpose He has no one to promise his loyalty to He is left to wander in search of a new lord “The Wanderer” “The Wanderer”Kenning : Lines 20-26 How does the kenning “gold-lord” help you infer the wanderer’s goal? “The Wanderer”Kenning “The Wanderer”Kenning Answer : Suggests wander’s livelihood is intimately connected with his having a lord, or one who will provide him with gold, or money. “The Wanderer”Kenning Answer “The Wanderer”Alliteration and Assonance : Read lines 87-92 What images and ideas do alliteration and assonance bind together in these lines? “The Wanderer”Alliteration and Assonance Answer : Alliteration: “walls wondrous high,” serpent shapes,” and “carnage…and conquering fate” Assonance: “warriors” with “memorials” Answer “The Wanderer”Caesura : How are caesuras used in “The Wanderer?” Why are caesuras used? “The Wanderer”Caesura “The Wanderer”Caesura Answer : They are breaks in the middle of a line Add to rhythmic element, add to meaning they either echo an idea or oppose an idea “The Wanderer”Caesura Answer “The Wanderer”Theme : Isolation “The Wanderer”Theme “The Wife’s Lament”Overview : Speaker has been sent into exile by her husband. She still longs for her husband She is angry and bitter about her friendless, lonely, joyless fate she must endure. Be able to answer essential question on pg. 31 “The Wife’s Lament”Overview