Part 1 of Essay
is a well-known Anglo-Saxon poem that has been in English classes around the United States for almost as long as there have been schools around. is not an actual picture of historic Denmark, Geatland, or Sweden around 500 A.D., yet it is on a general view, a self-consistent picture, a construction bearing clearly the ma ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... theories. was composed for an audience that would take into account the struggles that the main character took, and the audience would see the poem in its own way. Though few can clearly understand the value of the poem, we must realize that judging the poem from a twentieth century point of view would be unjust to the author or authors of . One of the most pleasing trends in recent old English studies has been the increasing awareness of the truth and importance of this simple observation. It is one which oft ....