Literary analyses of Beowulf
English. The poem's composition, however, is considered to date back to about 700
AD, meaning that it is from the Anglo-Saxon literary period. The epic was most
probably created by scop(s) who composed it for entertainment and in praise of their
master. Over the three centuries the epic was being changed and adapted by them, as
it was inherited by word of mouth.
The events occurring in the poem are set in Southern Scandinavia, Geatland
and Denmark, in the fifth and sixth centuries. It should be observed that the narrative
is written in the third person point of view and the narrator is omniscient.
The subject matters in this poem are restricted to war and death. This was their
present and therefore interesting to them as they could identify with the characters.
The restricted variety of themes, flat characters and confrontation are peculiarities of
epics
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