No… a Beowulf is not a food. Its an epic poem. My initial reaction to the word was “What does it taste like?” and “What color is it?”, so it is important to gather some background knowledge on the book… before, well… reading it. If anyone remembers the last epic poem I read, Evangeline, then you might already know what an epic poem is. An epic poem, according to Dictionary.com, is ” a long narrative poem telling of a hero’s deeds”. The same source says Beowulf is :
1.
( italics ) an English alliterative epic poem, probably written in the early 8th century a.d.
2.
the hero of this poem.
That basically outlines what we are getting into, but isn’t enough. After all, we are actually reading it. According to another source, many people and events in Beowulf are real people and historical events, which leads the question, was Beowulf himself real? Well, it is plausible, but not very likely.
So, Are you ready for an all new book???
Sources (For she who must know):
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This is my 50th Blog Post! Hurrahh!
-PAULIE 🙂
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Paulie, I find it very interesting that you thought Beowulf was a food or color or something, you know what I mean 😛 anyways, there must be something making us think that because I vaguely felt the same way. I’m not sure why yet, but we should look into that. Maybe once we start reading it’ll make sense…??
~jonna
I wonder.. Maybe seeing if the word “Beowulf” has an interesting etymology….
It would make a fun Research Paper Topic 😜
yes it would. we should totally write about it……..maybe in a class comic…haha forget research papers!
Paulie I think it tastes like ummm ice cream. Also I love how you shortly and quickly without much complected words told us about Beowulf. Good job Paulie. 😀
What Flavor ice Cream???
Rocky Road 😀