1. B EOWULF : T HE P OETRY OF B EOWULF alliteration

2. B EOWULF : T HE P OETRY OF B EOWULF The Anglo-Saxon oral poet also used the poetic device of alliteration. G rendel g ongan, g odes yrre bær; M ynte se m anscaða m anna cynnes

3. B EOWULF : T HE P OETRY OF B EOWULF Find examples of alliteration in Burton Raffel’s translation of lines 1-5: Out from the marsh, from the foot of misty Hills and bogs, bearing God’s hatred, Grendel came, hoping to kill Anyone he could trap on this trip to high Herot.

4. Consider these lines penned by another one of my communications superheroes, the poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, in her poem Autumn Daybreak: Autumn Daybreak: Tardy, and somewhat south of east, The sun will rise at length, made known More by the meagre light increased Than by a disk in splendour shown...