Lyrical poetry - Deor's Lament
- unknown author
- Deor seems to be a minstrel who was fallen out of the favour and considering the pas misfortunes of others
- glimpses of reality
- first person narrative
- a plethora of adjectives resulting in metaphors that are meant to describe feelings
- no stanzas
- no rhyme
- no metrical system
- the presence of alliteration
- the theme of Deor's Lament is usually the transience and unreliability of the world
Epic poetry - Beowulf
- it is the only old english poem of heroic exploits
- the life described in Beowulf has its own nobility and splendour
- rhyme is not used, but each line is broken in the middle and the two halves are joined by allitertion
- 3rd person narative (omniscient narative)
- real features mixed up with fantastic features (Grendel)
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