10 résultats pour "beowulf"
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From Bulfinch's Mythology: Beowulf - anthology.
help his aged monarch. Another rush of the dragon shattered Beowulf's sword and the monster's fangs sunk into Beowulf's neck. Wiglaf, rushing into the struggle,helped the dying Beowulf to kill the dragon. Before his death, Beowulf named Wiglaf his successor to the throne of Geatland and ordered that his own ashes be placed in a memorial shrine at the top of a highcliff commanding the sea. Beowulf's body was burned on a vast funeral pyre, while twelve Geats rode around the mound singing their...
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Poetry
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Phyllis McGinley
American poet and author Phyllis McGinley composed light, witty verse, much of which deals with family life.
repetition of certain lines and the rhyming of certain lines. The Provençal sestina features a set of six words that end lines (end-words), repeated in a dizzyingly complexpattern. The range of effects created by the poetic line varies tremendously depending on its length, its patterns of repetition, and whether the sentence stops at the end of theline (end-stopped) or carries over the end of the line (enjambed). Many of the earliest examples of Old English poetry feature an accentual line with...
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English Literature
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English Literature, literature produced in England, from the introduction of Old English by the Anglo-Saxons in the 5th century to the present.
evident. That feature is typical of other Old English literature, for almost all of what survives was preserved by monastic copyists. Most of it was actually composed byreligious writers after the early conversion of the people from their faith in the older Germanic divinities. Sacred legend and story were reduced to verse in poems resembling Beowulf in form. At first such verse was rendered in the somewhat simple, stark style of the poems of Caedmon, a humble man of the late 7th century who w...
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dragon - littérature.
Les légendes populaires des tribus païennes de l'Europe du Nord dressent également un portrait terrifiant du dragon. Dans la mythologie scandinave, le serpent de Midgard (le « domaine du milieu », voir Yggdrasil), également connu sous le nom de Jormungand, est un gigantesque et maléfique serpent de mer qui se mord la queue et dont les anneaux finissent par enserrer la terre entière. Thor, dieu du Tonnerre, l’abat à la fin des temps, mais s’effondre sous l’effet du venin que lui a craché la bê...