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- 3. My Teams History Lesson Questions www.topics.com Topics About the Author About the Hymn Analysis of Literary Devices Used
- 4. My Teams History Lesson Questions www.topics.com Topics Significant Human Experience Reflection
- 6. My Teams History Lesson Questions www. about the author.com Topics Caedmon is the earliest known English poet. Caedmon has been described as ‘the first English poet’ and ‘the father of English song’.
- 7. My Teams History Lesson Questions www. about the author.com Topics The author of Caedmon’s Hymn is literally none other than Caedmon. The earliest named English poet was a cowherd named Cædmon who lived at the Abbey of Whitby.
- 8. My Teams History Lesson Questions www. about the author.com Topics According to Bede, Cædmon was one of the greatest poets of his age, but you wouldn’t have guessed this from his early life.
- 10. My Teams History Lesson Questions www.historylesson.com Topics This manuscript was made in the mid 8th to early 9th century, in Bede’s own monastery of Wearmouth-Jarrow. Tragically, the manuscript was damaged in a terrible fire in 1731. You can see how the edges of the pages are ragged and there is dark staining from water.
- 11. Questions Topics My Teams History Lesson www.historylesson.com In Old and Middle English c.890– c.450, Elaine Treharne translates Cædmon’s Hymn (from the gloss found in a manuscript in St Petersburg) into modern English as:
- 12. My Teams History Lesson Questions www.caedmon’shymn.com Topics Now we must praise heaven-kingdom’s Guardian, The Measurer’s might and his mind-plans, The work of the Glory-Father, when he of wonders of every one Eternal Lord, the beginning established He first created for men’s sons Heaven as a roof, holy Creator, Then middle-earth mankind’s Guardian, Eternal Lord, afterwards made- For men earth, Master almighty.
- 13. My Teams History Lesson Questions ANALYSIS OF THE ELEMENTS OF THE POEM/HYMN Topics Mood or Tone- a didactic and devotional tone with a religious tinge. Meter/Metre- Metrically, Cædmon’s Hymn is an accomplished but very conservative poem. It is a nine-line poem.
- 14. My Teams History Lesson Questions ANALYSIS OF THE ELEMENTS OF THE POEM/HYMN Topics Rhyme- Caedmon's Hymn is an alliterative praise poem (and hymn). It depends on rhythmic uses of alliteration, or repetition of the same consonant throughout each line. It represents the use of pagan Germanic poetic conventions in Christian cultures. Cædmon’s Hymn’ by Cædmon was originally written in Old English, meaning that the translation below is quite different from how those at the time it was written would’ve heard or recited it.
- 15. My Teams History Lesson Questions ANALYSIS OF THE ELEMENTS OF THE POEM/HYMN Topics Themes The poet engages with themes of religion and gratitude in ‘Cædmon’s Hymn.
- 16. My Teams History Lesson Questions Literary Devices Topics The poet used several interesting literary devices in ‘Cædmon’s Hymn.’ These include alliteration, caesura, and kenning.
- 17. My Teams History Lesson Questions Literary Devices Topics Alliteration is an incredibly important technique in Old English poetry. The poets of the time structured their pieces around the repetition of consonant sounds. For instance, “Measurer’s might” and “mind” in the second line and “middle-earth” and “mankind” in line seven.
- 18. My Teams History Lesson Questions www.caedmon’shymn.com Topics Now we must praise heaven-kingdom’s Guardian, The Measurer’s might and his mind-plans, The work of the Glory-Father, when he of wonders of every one Eternal Lord, the beginning established He first created for men’s sons Heaven as a roof, holy Creator, Then middle-earth mankind’s Guardian, Eternal Lord, afterwards made- For men earth, Master almighty.
- 19. My Teams History Lesson Questions Literary Devices Topics Caesurae are pauses in the middle of lines, another prominent feature in Old English poetry. For example, line three reads: “The work of the Glory-Father, when he of wonders of every one” as well as line nine, which reads: “For men earth, Master almighty.”
- 20. My Teams History Lesson Questions www.caedmon’shymn.com Topics Now we must praise heaven-kingdom’s Guardian, The Measurer’s might and his mind-plans, The work of the Glory-Father, when he of wonders of every one Eternal Lord, the beginning established He first created for men’s sons Heaven as a roof, holy Creator, Then middle-earth mankind’s Guardian, Eternal Lord, afterwards made- For men earth, Master almighty.
- 21. My Teams History Lesson Questions Literary Devices Topics A kenning is a figure of speech, a roundabout, two-word phrase used in the place of a one-word noun. Kennings were first used in Anglo-Saxon and Norse poetry. “Heaven-kingdom” “Glory-Father” are examples of an Anglo Saxon compound word, known as a kenning.
- 22. My Teams History Lesson Questions www.caedmon’shymn.com Topics Now we must praise heaven-kingdom’s Guardian, The Measurer’s might and his mind-plans, The work of the Glory-Father, when he of wonders of every one Eternal Lord, the beginning established He first created for men’s sons Heaven as a roof, holy Creator, Then middle-earth mankind’s Guardian, Eternal Lord, afterwards made- For men earth, Master almighty.
- 23. Topics My Teams History Lesson www.questions.com Questions Thank You for Listening! any questions?
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- Imagine we are part of the straw hat pirates. We are going to travel in the Anglo-Saxon period and discover the treasure of old English poem or Hymn by Caedmon.
- Imagine we are part of the straw hat pirates. We are going to travel in the Anglo-Saxon period and discover the treasure of old English poem or Hymn by Caedmon.