Beowulf: Cycles/Rings

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English

 

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Stephnie G

 

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December 13, 2015

 

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There are several situations within the poem where things return in a way in which they came. Beowulf opens with the story of the great Spear-Dane, Shield Sheafson. The poem reveals that he was abandoned as a child and found floating in the ocean. After his death, Shield’s people honor him with a lavish funeral and “decked his body no less bountifully with offerings than those first ones who cast him away when he was a child”(43-45)...
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After his death, Shield’s people honor him with a lavish funeral and “decked his body no less bountifully with offerings than those first ones who cast him away when he was a child”(43-45). In this way, Shield (who has come from the sea) has completed his ring of life by returning to it. Shield’s plunder and treasures have also traveled full circle, as they were returned to him in death: Far-fetched treasures Were piled upon him, precious gear… The massed treasure Was loaded upon him: it would Travel far out into the ocean...
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