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Essay Galaxy - Beowulf Beowulf

The excerpt of Beowulf 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 Beowulf 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 statement beginning on line 53 of the story. "Then each warrior tried to escape him, searched for rest in different beds, as far from Herot as they could find, seeing how Grendel hunte....

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