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ANGLO-SAXON LIGTERATURE - Coggle Diagram
ANGLO-SAXON LIGTERATURE
Like much of the world’s earliest literature, the literature of the Anglo-Saxons was
first communicated orally
Poems, ballads, songs, lyrics,
tales, folklore and stories of myth were recited by professional poetry and story-tellers
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recited their poems aloud from memory and moved from one court to another, as the
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tribe for the benefit of future generations. As effective keepers of the tribe’s identity, poets were
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- EPIC: a long narrative poem about heroic lives and deeds of the great warrior kings ;
2, LYRIC: a non-narrative poem expressing a mood or a personal response to events;
- ELEGY: a kind of lyric poem with a melancholy tone, often a general meditation about universal
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