This a blog for Mr. James Cook's eleventh grade honors English class at Gloucester (MA) High School. Remember what Northrup Frye writes in _Fearful Symmetry_, "No one can begin to think straight unless [she or] he has a passionate desire to think and an intense joy in thinking."

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Beowulf (trans. Raffel) section 1-18

In class (Monday, September 28) we got a summary from Kevin Hurd. Then before we could add much to his summary we plunged deeply into a discussion of the relationship (as presented in the text) between the Christian God, Beowulf, and Grendel. Several of you did some excellent digging for direct quotations. This is the kind of conversation -- using our interpretive skills in response to the text -- that I hope we keep having.

We'll continue the discussion of this section of Beowulf on Tuesday. You should write comments for whatever you know, think, and feel but were unable to say during class.

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