Transience essay

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Theme, prevalent, preoccupation, so-called

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Such, ‘authentic traditional, time’

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However, comparison, different, ephemeral

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Whilst, brevity, contrast, stasis, eternal, overshadows

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Opening lines, contrasting approaches, relationship

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Wife, 3-5, densely, temporal

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First glance, binary opposition, points, dislocatin

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However, drawing, unites, adverb; departure, continual

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Eternal present, transience not central preoccupation- grief

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Contrast, opening, contrast, grim

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Scholars, Bath, elegiac, reverence, 410

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*contrast, juxtaposition, is/gebracon

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First glance, deceived, present splendour

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However, position, physically/metaphorically

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Moreover, position, inevitable transience; destruction, end

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This analysis related, association, wyrd, glory/destruction

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One hand, double alliteration, headstave, glory/prosperity

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However, collocation of wyrd gebracon, transient

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Preoccupation, cycle, christian cultures

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Latin, Venantius Fortunatus, Thuringia, ‘quam subito lapsu regna superba cadunt’

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Interesting, short units/compounds and phrases

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Single, gecrong, gebrocen, describe, clearly

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Contrast, searogimmas, bradan rices, glory

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Both, coordination, units, meaning, components, signify

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Renoir, meodoheall monig, fragility lengthier (1983)

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Opulence, communal festivities

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Positive connotations, lost

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Thus, lengthier, rather than short, reinforces, fragility of glory; destruction certain

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Finally, narrative persona, manipulate, entas

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Beginning, ordered, temporal, Arest, Ta

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Ostensible linear structure

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Sequential ordering, 15, ‘het mec hlaford min herheard niman’

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Chronologically, prior to departure, 6

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Whilst parataxis 6-21, orders, lack of chronology, ‘rush of memory’ (Martin Green, 1983)

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That is to say, emotional significance

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Thus, subjective/sequential; past/present, obscured

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Lack of progression, oscillation between personal/gnomic

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This structure, biblical psalms (Jane Toswell), ‘continual alternation between the negative and the positive, the cry of pain and and statement of trust’

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In particular, David’s lament, penitential; 32, beati quorum (blessed is he), quonium tacui (I held my tongue)

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However, whilst David resolved, no solution/resolution

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Contributes to sense of stasis

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By contrast, civillians, entas (giants), reinforces divide

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Firstly, ‘entas’, alien; cultural difference, unrecognisable

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Secondly, the semantic choice, glory of past society

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Chris Bishop (2006), THyrs, monsters; Bruce Mitchell and Fred Robinson

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Whereas, enta, ‘arcane knowledge’, admiration, ‘hwatred in hringas’

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*However, irony; despite, endure, humanity, escape, brevity

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Fact, ‘wu[n]iaD giet s[e]…[n]um geheapen’, ‘hund cnea/hear gripe hrusan’ mocking reminder, brevity, contrast, ruins

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Overall, both, time/transience, different

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Wife’s, speaker who, through immutable, eternal present

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Ruin, contrasts, highlight, brevity, ruins

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Echoes, Bede’s bird, Ecclesiastical History (Conversion…Northumbria); ‘just for a moment’ winter, ‘so the life of man appears here for a short season’

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Mutual conclusion, inevitability of suffering; only thing depicted as certain in both poems, that defeats transience, is destruction