Publication Date

12-1-1973

Degree Program

Department of English

Degree Type

Master of Arts

Abstract

This thesis, then, will attempt to show that the achievement of unity was the primary concern of the Old English poets, who aimed to use the power of poetry to teach their people how their hope for immortality might be realized under Christianity. Their concern is evident from their poetic diction and themes that have an origin in common values of mankind, from their demonstration of unity within the poems by deliberately chosen connotative language and by forms which represent a progression of thought, and from their objective presentations in dramatic and imaginative settings. Therefore, the poetry is a fusion cf Christian cr.d pager, elements based en the Christian messege cf hope for irxDrtality, a common hope of all mankind.

Disciplines

English Language and Literature

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