Epic poetry

2o English Each and every single person has his or her own adventure, and behind each story is a Hero's Journey. In our Hero's Journey, Erandi, Raymond, and I, The Oreos, will be competing our way to the Ultimate Slam, a grand tournament that everyone, across the entire bay area, is fighting to get into. For this reason, the three of us will have to combat a rigorous and intense battle to the top. As we prepare for the upcoming tournament, our shihan, or head instructor, will be mentoring us…

The Homer’s Iliad is one of the greatest pieces of Ancient literature. It has a lot of prominent motives that are influential and could be traced even in the modern literature. As a matter of fact, it has a lot of interesting concepts; however, one of the most dominant ones is the topic of justice and vengeance. The war itself is just a personal motivation of Agamemnon to deal with Troy and to punish them for their deeds in the past, the Greeks just want revenge, even though the Troy Priest of…

Does the Hero’s Journey apply to all stories in the media? Joseph Campbell deduced from researching myths and legends that all stories are connected by one big circle of storytelling, the monomyth. He concluded that they all have a similar path of journey from beginning to end, success to failure, and life to death. I believe that his Hero’s Journey theory is actually correct to compare all the stories in the media to the same path, and we just don’t realize we’re watching the same story…

A common assumption is that the Iliad is merely a tale that celebrates the conquests of great warriors who create legacies for themselves and their families. In reality, beneath the idea of a legacy is a negative side. The epic poem is written so that the famous are the ones who experience the greatest misery because they are trapped by public opinion. In the Iliad, Homer subverts the ancient Greek trope that legacies are crucial to a fulfilling life. One of the most complex characters in the…

What does an Epic Hero look like? What is an epic hero? An epic hero is someone who is helpful, Brave and loyal just like Beowulf. The author was an anonymous Anglo saxon poet, he was known as the “Beowulf poet”. In the story, Beowulf is a warrior from Geats he goes and helps Hrothgar, The king of the Danes who is being attacked by a monster who was known as Grendel. Young Beowulf is being compared to Old Beowulf. Young and old Beowulf have different, yet similar traits in how they show…

Beowulf's death is arguably the most important scene in this epic poem; however, his development up to that point is paramount. Each of his three battles was a crucial turning points in his life acting as rites of passage leading up to and foreshadowing his untimely demise. In the first battle he gained the people's admiration, in the second battle he gained their confidence, and in the final battle he passed from this world. The differences between these three battles are the effect they…

Joseph Campbell, was an American mythological researcher, who is most famous for this book, “The Hero with a Thousand Faces.” In this widely known book, he discovered that there are many common patterns that hero myths have. This hero story telling phenomenon was present in myths from all over the world and from different cultures. The heroes in these stories go through several steps to get victory in the end. Campbell called this the Hero’s Journey. From one of the most popular movie series,…

encounters “supernatural aid”, another feature of the separation stage. In this part, the hero receives a gift from a mystical being to assist on his or her journey, which is noticed as Beowulf is heading to Grendel’s mother’s lair. As stated in the epic poem, “... he leaped into the lake. For hours he sank through the waves…” (Raffel 26). This quote epitomizes “supernatural aid”. It is impossible for a human being to drown for a few minutes, let alone for hours. Therefore, it is plausible that…

Beowulf: The Epic Hero’s Journey “And many men stated that south or north, / Over all the world, or between the seas, / Or under the heaven was no hero was greater,” is how men describe the hero Beowulf, in the epic Beowulf (670-672). This title character is known for his brave feats his loyalty to his king. He is an epic hero as he embodies the characteristics of a hero such as having larger-than-life qualities, traveling on long journeys, and undertaking tasks that no one dares to attempt.…

The poem the Iliad was written by Homer, who wrote about a time during the Greek and Trojan war. As of today, though the book is still argued because of certain accounts of history it speaks of. Numerous ancient poems for example the Iliad consist of bloodshed and in quarrels, the book talks of things and how it started. There are different events that take place in book 1, 9, and 24. Each of the books are events that took place starting with arguments over deaths, kidnaps, and heroism. The…