You will know by key words and foreshadowing that the author throws at you in the text but if you are not careful you will not see it and eventually become lost
The kenning war-masks refer to Beowulf.
Answer: The events in Act I suggest that the ghost of Hamlet's father is real.
Explanation:
In the play, Hamlet encounters a ghost of his father, who tells him that his father has been murdered by his uncle, Claudius, who is now the new king and who has married Hamlet's mother. Hamlet also finds out that his mother was adulterous even before her husband's death.
The theory behind the ghost of Hamlet's father is open to different interpretation even today. It would, probably, make more sense to argue that the ghost is not a product of Hamlet's imagination. Although some of the critics claim that Hamlet has gone crazy due to the extreme sadness upon his father's death, and that the ghost is his hallucination, there is no hard evidence for this theory. Horatio, Marcellus, and Bernardo are actually the first characters to see the ghost (in <em>Act I, Scene I</em>), even before Hamlet does. It is not until <em>Act I, scene IV</em>, that Hamlet sees the ghost. As the witnesses discuss the appearance of the ghost among themselves, it implies that it is not a figment of Hamlet's imagination.
Answer:
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Fantasy and supernatural.
- William Wordsworth: Healing power of nature.
- William Blake: Mysticism and spirituality.
- Thomas Gray: Aspirations and potential of all human beings.
The Romantic period was a literary movement that arose as a reaction to the Enlightenment. While the Enlightenment emphasized concepts such as logic and reason, the Romantics attempted to rescue those "human" traits that were less remarked upon. They focused on the individual, the magical, the supernatural, the traditional and the emotional. All of these writers contributed, in different ways, to this period.
<span>Caedmon was a simple cowherd of British origin. While sleeping, he began to sing the praise of God the Creator, verses which he had never heard before, and after awaking from his sleep, he remembered all that he had sung in his dream. This was considered a gift. It is not know how long Caedmon lived after he had received his gift , but its assumed it was not long as he was already advanced in years.</span>