Compare and contrast the lyric poetry of the anglo-saxon period to the renaissance based on the selections you read in the anglo-saxon

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Compare and contrast the lyric poetry of the Anglo-Saxon period with that of the Renaissance, based on the selections you studied from the Anglo-Saxon period (449–1066) and the Renaissance (1485–1660). In your response, describe the literary devices commonly employed and the themes that were frequently explored in both periods. Please include at least one specific example from each era to illustrate your points. Your response should be at least one paragraph in length.

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In the Anglo-Saxon period, there were a few well-known poets. To be specific, twelve bards were known of that time and one of them is really representative. This is Caedmon.  He was a church man and his poems were really chants, mainly about the Greatness of God. Bards, at that time, more than writing, sang chants. The preferred literary figure was alliteration that repeats the beginning of a sentence so it rhymes with another sentence or word. About 30000 lines of Anglo.Saxon poetry have survived in four manuscripts. The Anglo-Saxon period spans from 410 to 1066 A.D. and the Caedmon manuscript contains The Exeter book ( a poetic antology), Vercelly book (a mix of poetry and prose) and Norwell Codex (a mix of poetry and prose). There were heroic poems, religious poems, personal poems and love poems at that time.The Renaissance period had  two main representants: Francesco Petrarca and Sir Phillip Sydney. They used mainly sonnets. A phrase that depicts this time is: Knight shows loyalty, lover shows passion, scholar shows Knowledge.

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can you copy and paste what selections you read? the answer is based off of that.

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Renaissance poems focus on the creative and experimental side of human nature through more abstract ideas such as nostalgia, imagination and emotion. The literary devices employed in the Renaissance period are personification, alliteration, smile and metaphor.On the contrary, the lyric poetry of the Anglo-Saxon period is characterized by dramatic, and formal style.The literary devices commonly used in the Anglo-Saxon period are Alliteration, Epithet, Hyperbole, Kenning, Metaphor. Example of a Renaissance poem: Death, be not proud:Death be not proud, though some have called theeMighty and dreadfull, for, thou art not soe,For, those, whom thou think’st, thou dost overthrow,Die not, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill mee.From rest and sleepe, which but thy pictures bee,Much pleasure, then from thee, much more must flow,And soonest our best men with thee doe goe,Rest of their bones, and soules deliverie. [...]An example of Anglo-Saxon poetry:Now let us praise the Guardian of the Kingdom of Heaventhe might of the Creator and the thought of his mind,the work of the glorious Father, how He, the eternal Lordestablished the beginning of every wonder.For the sons of men, He, the Holy Creatorfirst made heaven as a roof, then theKeeper of mankind, the eternal LordGod Almighty afterwards made the middle worldthe earth, for men.

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Compare and contrast the lyric poetry of the anglo-saxon period to the renaissance based on the selections you read in the anglo-saxon

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