Beowulf<\/p>\n
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The beginning might not be the end. And that night<\/p>\n
Grendel cam again, so set<\/p>\n
On murder that no crime could ever be enough,<\/p>\n
No savage assault quench his lust<\/p>\n
For evil. Then each warrior tried<\/p>\n
To escape him, searched for rest in different<\/p>\n
Beds, as far from Herot as they could find,<\/p>\n
Seeing how Grendel hunted when they slept.<\/p>\n
Distance was safety; the only survivors<\/p>\n
Were those who fled him. Hate had triumphed.<\/p>\n
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Author unknown<\/p>\n
Line 134-143<\/p>\n
Translated by Burton Raffel<\/p>\n
Signet Classic \u2013 New American Library, 1963<\/p>\n
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For a representation of text my initial thought was Beowulf. For me, Beowulf is one of the ultimate representations of text. This epic poem has an unknown author and is thought to be one of the first documented texts in Anglo-Saxon history. Much debate surrounds this poem as it is thought in many scholarly circles to be a collection of oral stories. Walter J. Ong states in his book, Orality and Literacy<\/em>, the difference between written literature and oral tradition. He states that \u201cWriting makes \u2018words\u2019 appear similar to things because we think of words as the visible marks signalling word to decoders: we can see and touch and inscribed \u2018words\u2019 in texts and books. Written words are residue. Oral tradition has no such reside or deposit.\u201d (pg. 11). Thus I see the epic poem Beowulf to be a juxtaposition of text and oral traditions. One of the first written documents in the English language is an illustration of the evolution (weaving and stitching) of written English.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Beowulf \u00a0 The beginning might not be the end. And that night Grendel cam again, so set On murder that no crime could ever be enough, No savage assault quench his lust For evil. Then each warrior tried To escape him, searched for rest in different Beds, as far from Herot as they could find, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":908,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4972],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/908"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":400,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions\/400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}