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The development of poetry
The Anglo-Saxons
Their literature was told
in hall of kings
, they were epics and they celebrated cultural values (in ceremonies)
Poet:
The Scop
: anonymous and oral, accompanied by a harp.
Anglo-Saxons' literature
Main features
Stress
: each line can be divided in 2 parts, each has two main stresses
Alliteration
: repetition of the same initial consonant, it was used to link the two parts of the line
Kenning
: phrase used in place of nouns
Their poetry was written in the 12th century by
churh clerks
, it is divided in 2 parts
epic
elegiac
The medieval lyric (Middle Ages)
It expressed personal emotions,
religious
first and then
secular
(love and nature)
Metrical romances
: they talked about
chivalry
(cavalleria), love and supernatural creatures, it came from
France, Britain and Rome
.
The medieval ballads
: (simple language) composed between the
13th and 14th century,
they were anonymous, intended for singing and dancing, it present supernatural creatures like fairies
They had
no moral aim
, it told a dramatic story in series of flashes, and it had a mixture of
dialogue and narration
. It uses a rhyming ABCB and a
refrain
, a repeated line or groups of lines
Type of ballads
Ballads of magic
: fairies, ghosts, witchcraft and trasformations
Border ballads
: rivarly between English vs Scottish
Ballads of love and domestic tragedy
: murders and jealousy
Ballads of outlaws
: (Robin Hood)
The epic poem
A long narrative poetical composition, in it, the society was
aristocratic and military
, the heroes were the main characters, the narrative was based on
battles, voyages and funerals
. The main theme was hero's life
in the society
.
The style is elevated with
vivid vocabulary
, each line is divided by a break and it has
4 stresses
,
the alliteration links
the 2 parts of each line
Brave acts of
heroes and supernatural creatures
.
Beowulf
It is the oldest surviving epic poem, named by the
Scandinavian
hero of the 19th century
The hero and the story are a fiction
, it was written for a king who died in the 7th centyry and it had many retelling before it was written down in the
11th century
Written in
Old English
, it is divided in three parts
linked by
the presence of the
same hero
The first action
took place in
Denmark
, ruled by King Hrothgar,
Heorot Beowulf
mortally wounded a monster that terrorized the king for 12 years, later he dives in a
mistic lake
and had to fight the monster's mother
The last action took place in
Sweden
where and elderly Beowulf fights
a dragon
terrorizing his own land.
The pagan elegy
Lyrical poem in form of
dramatic monologue
, the main theme is the exile/wracca which haunts (ossessiona) the
Anglo-Saxons immagination
A fear of the
dissolution
of the clan due to
attacks or internal conficts
, the main character is the
lone wanderer
that shares a moving view of the human condition
It has a
melancholic mood
and a frequent use of the alliteration