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."

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Post-Beowulf Readings

Reading choices:
"The Wanderer" (trans. Raffel) "Beowulf" (Wilbur), Beowulf (Sagoff), Gilgamesh (Mason), I Samuel, Chapters 16-18 [David and Goliath], "A Gathering of Heroes" (Alan-Williams)

Open Response Questions:
1. What does the text suggest about heroes and heroism?
2. What does the text suggest about monsters and monstrousness?
3. How is the narrative point of view significant in the text?