1. She Walks in Beauty by George Gordon, Lord Byron She walks in Beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that’s best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellowed to that tender light Which Heaven to gaudy day denies. One shade the more, one ray the less, Had half impaired the nameless grace Which waves in every raven tress, Or softly lightens o’er her face; Where thoughts serenely sweet express, How pure, how dear their dwelling-place. And on that cheek, and o’er that brow, So soft, so calm, yet eloquent, The smiles that win, the tints that glow, But tell of days in goodness spent, A mind at peace with all below, A heart whose love is innocent!

2. Beowulf

3. Standard 3.3
Use knowledge of literary history, tradition, and theory to respond to and analyze the meaning of texts.

4. FACTS Written between 7th & 10th Century Anglo-Saxon/Old English
Only one manuscript
Oral Tradition-story telling
Heroic Narrative
Made famous by J.R.R Tolkien

5. Main Characters Grendel Man-eating Monster Grendel’s Mother Beowulf
Scandinavian Prince
Hero
Geat
Son of Ecgtheow
Hrothgar
King of the Danes or Shieldings
Grendel
Man-eating Monster
Grendel’s Mother

6. Poem Facts More than 3,000 lines long
Foundation work of poetry in English
Actually had little direct impact on English Poetry
Written in England, but events are set in Scandinavia
“once upon a time”- partly historical
Dynasties of Swedes, Geats, and Danes

7. Oral Tradition Told and re-told long before it was written down.
Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian people –Britain
Conversion to Christianity
Old Pagan Story
Came to be told by a Christian Poet
Unlike the first Beowulf

8. Anglo-Saxon/Old English
Heavily Germanic
Little influence from Latin or French
Modern English comes from many sources
Compound words
H before r is sounded
cg=dg edge Ecgtheow

9. J.R.R. Tolkien Oxford Scholar and teacher
Author of The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings
Greatly influenced by Beowulf
Before Tolkien, interest was historical about the Anglo-Saxon era.
1936- “Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics”
Created an Appreciation!!