Beowulf

(Source: Erin Schwagerl)

After listening to the Seamus Heaney audio narration of the Beowulf clips, I felt I had a completely different understanding of the reading. The flow provided by listening to an audio narration made the story make a lot more sense in my head. The experience reminded me of being a child and my dad reading me a bedtime story. I could visualize the scenes and I understood what action was happening to each character. The first time I read line 817, I thought it was one of the human soldiers whose shoulder had been ripped apart. Then when listening to the audio version I realized Beowulf had caused this injury to the great monster. The words were the same; however, hearing the words delivered audibly brought me contextual clarity I had not found in reading the passage.