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Beowulf

The excerpt of that I read in class was far better than I expected. I was able to understand it easily both from a poetic and dialect standpoint. The story was also very suspenseful and far ahead of it's time for action.
This poem was written in a very easily understood, straightforward fashion. Even though it was arranged in lines, you read as if it wasn't. The sheet that accompanies the story explains, "Read as you would read prose, stopping not at the end of each line, but at end punctuation that shows the end of a sentence." The dialect that the story was written in is very close to the way we speak today, thus making it easily interpreted. A random sentence to verify this is the ...

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detailed, especially when Grendel attacks, "Grendel snatched at the first Geat he came to, ripped him apart, cut his body to bits with powerful jaws, drank the blood from his veins and bolted him down..." There is an exaggerated fight near the end that puts good against evil, a cliché ending to medieval action stories. The battle is fought by a superhuman fighter and Grendel a monster from the depths of hell. The story ends with good conquering over evil, which is the standard ending for these types of stories. The story quotes, "The battle was over, had been granted new glory; Grendel escaped, but wounded as he was could flee to his den, his miserable hole at the bottom of the marsh, only to die, to wait for the end."
Those reasons are what I thought made it a good story. Those qualities were very apparent to me, and I thought they made it better than most storytelling poems. I would recommend this story to anyone who has a bad view of old ...

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Added: 11/22/2006 02:02:15 PM
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