This week I have been reading Beowulf, an epic poem written over a thousand years ago. I chose this book first of all, because it is in my school's curriculum, so I thought I should read it for test-out purposes; also, I thought that as we have been reading some classic literature in class, I could sample a variety of ancient texts!
I noticed that the conflict in Beowulf initially began early in the plot with the introduction of a bloodthirsty, murderous, demonic monster. However, the overall pace of the book so far seems fairly constant, and the tension is slowly rising. Though it is an epic like the Odyssey, and the author reminds me of an English, Christian, and slightly more refined Homer, the pace is more comparable to that of Frankenstein. Additionally, I am enjoying the flow of the poem's structure more than I did that of the Iliad and the Odyssey. Furthermore, from the details the author gave, I inferred that one's genealogy was still very important in that time and culture.
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