Monday Post for Monday, September 14

The "Dream of the Rood" and "The Wanderer" have pretty obvious Christian allusions in them.  Beowulf, less so.  In fact, there are some scholars who think that the Christian references (mostly Old Testament) were added by a later scribe.  Choose 1 Christian or biblical allusion from the last half of Beowulf (after line 836) and compare/contrast it with the pattern of Christian/biblical allusions found in EITHER "The Wanderer" or "Dream of the Rood."  What conclusion (if any) can you make about the type of Christianity found in the poem Beowulf?

Welcome to the Monday Post!  

Your Monday post regards the reading for the upcoming Monday's class.  It should be about a paragraph or two long.  After your thorough reading, respond with:

• literary insights into your good, close reading using appropriate literary terms
• contextual (from that time period) historical or cultural insights into the reading--connecting ideas from intros and head notes with your reading
• comparisons/contrasts between these Monday texts and a recent text we have read together
• comparisons/contrasts between these Monday texts and a more modern cultural work

Don't quote long passages, but short, pithy, and useful words, terms, or phrases from the text.  Cite everything you quote (line #, page #, act/scene/line#s) using MLA citation format.  Identify titles of short poems using quotation marks and titles of longer works (long poems, plays, long prose works, films) using italics.