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Nov 17, 2007, 04:52 PM
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I'm going to see Beowulf next week.
I'm excited! Has anyone seen it yet? |
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Nov 17, 2007, 06:26 PM
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I think too many English classes where I had to read it may have ruined it for me :-)
Neat music though: http://www.beowulfmovie.com/
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Nov 18, 2007, 06:08 PM
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I didn't know it was a book! Is it a good read?
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Nov 18, 2007, 06:19 PM
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It's not exactly a book; it's one of the first written stories to survive in the English language, kind of a long "poem" but in old English so you can't really understand it:
http://www.lone-star.net/literature/beowulf/ The text: http://classiclit.about.com/library/...eowulf-all.htm It's really lousy reading, especially if you then have to discuss it as an older teenager in order to appear "educated" :-) My husband and I went to the same university so I know he had it in English also but he has blocked it from his mind, claims he's never heard of it, LOL; he was an engineering major.
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Nov 18, 2007, 06:30 PM
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It's actually a very "sad" story and you feel sorry for the monster in the end. I think I'll go see the movie too, just to see how they may have changed it for "modern" audiences. Obviously the producer/director had it in sophomore English class many years ago and is trying to "creatively" work out some psychological problem he has
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Nov 20, 2007, 02:02 PM
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Very much an epic poem. I had to read it freshmen year. Really enjoyed it. If you want to read a different version try "The 13th Warrior."
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Nov 20, 2007, 03:41 PM
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Beowulf brings back very traumatic memories of taking old English as a minor in university. We spent the first semester during bits of surviving poems and ballads to learn the language and then the entire second semester on Beowulf. There were only about 10 people in the class and the prof was this 4 foot tyrant who would walk in point at someone and say "read" you then had to read a line and translate it, and keep going until she called on someone else.
The only upside to it was my spelling got a lot better after understanding all of the old anglosaxon roots and vowel shifts that English has gone through over the centuries. ---splitimage
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