The ElegyThe Elegy

Love can not fill the thickening blood with breath,Love can not fill the thickening blood with breath,Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone;Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone;Yet many a man is making friends with deathYet many a man is making friends with death

Even as I speak, for lack of love alone.Even as I speak, for lack of love alone.

~ Edna St. Vincent Millay~ Edna St. Vincent Millay

The ElegyThe Elegy

An elegy is a poem An elegy is a poem that mourns the that mourns the death of a person or death of a person or laments something laments something lost.lost.

The ElegyThe Elegy

The dominant mood in Anglo-Saxon poetry The dominant mood in Anglo-Saxon poetry is is elegiacelegiac..

There is a sense of sadness over the There is a sense of sadness over the grimness and transience of earthly life, grimness and transience of earthly life, which is found in the heroic epic.which is found in the heroic epic.

It is also found in several Old English It is also found in several Old English fragments and poems in which a bard fragments and poems in which a bard laments the passing of better days and laments the passing of better days and greater glories. greater glories.

The SeafarerThe Seafarer

Quick WriteQuick Write

Do you think we “worship celebrities” today, Do you think we “worship celebrities” today, not heroes? And if we do, what effect does not heroes? And if we do, what effect does that have on what we value and whom we that have on what we value and whom we present to children as a role models? present to children as a role models?

You have 5 minutes to write one paragraph You have 5 minutes to write one paragraph responding to this question.responding to this question.

The SeafarerThe Seafarer

The Anglo-Saxons were The Anglo-Saxons were sea voyagers, and the sea voyagers, and the northern seas were northern seas were then, as now, especially then, as now, especially cruel. cruel.

The speaker in “The The speaker in “The Seafarer” is an old Seafarer” is an old sailor who drifted sailor who drifted through many winters through many winters on ice cold seas.on ice cold seas.

Heroes Celebrities

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