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THE DEVELOPEMENT OF POETRY, An Anglo-Saxon harp - Coggle Diagram
THE DEVELOPEMENT OF POETRY
The main features of Anglo-Saxon poetry
Every line had 4 stresses and was divided into two half by a break or a caesura
The allitteration (repetition of a consonant) was used to link the two halfes of the line
The kenning is a phormulaic phrase used in place of a name
Anglo-Saxon literature
WHERE? In the hall of kings HOW? The scop was accompanied by an harp
The poet was called
scop
and he sang epics poems
The Medieval lyric
It expressed intense personal emotions
It could be sung with an accompaniment of a musical instrument
At the beginning it was of religious argument, thenit became also a kind of poetry about love and nature
The metrical romances
They were tales in verse about love, chivalry and supernatural creatures
The greatest of all English metrical romances was
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Goffrey Chaucer was the most important medieval poet and the father of English literature
The medieval ballad
They were composed between 13th and 14th century
The language was simple
They were transmitted orally and they were collected in the
Reliques of Ancient English Poetry
An Anglo-Saxon harp
