Compare and contrast the lyric poetry of the Anglo-Saxon period with the Renaissance based on the selections you have read in the Anglo-Saxon period: unit 449-1066 and the Renaissance: unit 1485-1660. describe the literary devices commonly used and the themes most discussed during the two periods. Include at least one specific example from each period. Your answer should be at least one paragraph.
In Anglo-Saxon times, there were well-known poets. To be more precise, twelve bards were known at the time and one of them is quite representative. It’s Caedmon. He was a churchman and his poems were really songs, mostly about the greatness of God. Bards in those days, rather than writing, sang songs. The favorite literary figure was alliteration, which repeats the beginning of a sentence so that it rhymes with another sentence or word. Some 30,000 lines of Anglo-Saxon poetry have survived in four mɑɲυꜱ crypts. The Anglo-Saxon period extends from 410 to 1066 CE and the Caedmon Crypt mɑɲυꜱ contains the Book of Exeter (a poetic anthology), the Book of Vercelly (a mixture of poetry and prose) and the Norwell Codex (a mixture poetry and prose). There were heroic poems, religious poems, personal poems and love poems at that time. The Renaissance period had two main exponents: Francesco Petrarca and Sir Phillip Sydney. They mainly used sonnets. A phrase that describes this era is: the knight shows loyalty, the lover shows passion, the scholar shows knowledge.
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Renaissance poems focus on the creative and experimental side of human nature through more abstract ideas such as nostalgia, imagination, and emotion. The literary devices used in the Renaissance are personification, alliteration, smile and metaphor. On the contrary, the lyric poetry of the Anglo-Saxon period is characterized by a dramatic and formal style. The literary devices commonly used in the Anglo-Saxon period are Alliteration, Epithet, Hyperbole, Kenning, Metaphor. Example of a renaissance poem: Death, be not proud: Death be not proud, though some call you
Powerful and terrible, because you are not,
Because, those you think to overthrow,
Don’t die, poor dead man, you can’t kill me yet.
Rest and sleep, which are only your images,
Much pleasure, then from you much more will flow,
And soon our best men will go with you,
Rest of your bones and surrender of souls. […] An example of Anglo-Saxon poetry: Let us now praise the Guardian of the Kingdom of Heaven
the power of the Creator and the thought of your mind,
the work of the glorious Father, like Him, the Eternal Lord
established the beginning of all wonder.
To the children of men, He, the Holy Creator
first he made the sky like a roof, then the
Guardian of mankind, the Eternal Lord
Almighty God later created the world from the middle
the earth, for men.