Beowulf Passage Analysis

1. Select one of the following passages:
• page 11, lines 126-169
• page 105, lines 1518-1556
• page 51, lines 749-789
• page 121, lines 1758-1784
2. Take notes on the passage. Consider both life in Anglo-Saxon society and the literary form of the Anglo-Saxon epic:
• Life in Anglo-Saxon society
• heroic ideal
• comitatus (relationship between king and vassals)
• heroic paradox
• values
• traditions
• hospitality
• pagan/Christian influences
• Epic 
• hero
• supernatural/magical
• kennings, epithets, litotes, alliteration
• repetition
• themes
• motifs
• set speeches
• catalogs
• genealogy
3. After taking notes, decide on the significance of the passage. Is it one main point or three interrelated points? Develop a paragraph around your answer. 
4. Your paragraph should 
• state the actual line numbers in/near the opening sentence
• provide a contextual basis for the passage; i.e., when does it take place? 
• identify who is speaking (character or narrator)
• explain and analyze the significance of the passage 
• use a minimum of three quotations from the passage for support (follow poetry quotation format--slashes between lines and line citations)
• end smoothly