Compare and contrast the lyric poetry of the anglo-saxon period to the renaissance based on the selections you read in the anglo-saxon period: 449–1066 unit and the renaissance: 1485–1660 unit. describe what literary devices were commonly used and what themes were most frequently addressed in both periods. include at least one specific example from each period. your response should be at least one paragraph long.

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 thee

Mighty 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 Heaven

the might of the Creator and the thought of his mind,

the work of the glorious Father, how He, the eternal Lord

established the beginning of every wonder.

For the sons of men, He, the Holy Creator

first made heaven as a roof, then the

Keeper of mankind, the eternal Lord

God Almighty afterwards made the middle world

the earth, for men.