An Easter poem

I would actually like to do this. I do enjoy longer poems too, like The Hunting of the Snark, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and The Lay of Leithian (a book long poem Tolkien did of one of his Silmarilian stories). I'll try read it over the holidays.

Thanks Cinnabar Wing, I'm not usually a poetry fan, but there are a few I like, apart from the Anglo-Saxon ones, which interest me more from an historical perspective about how they thought about the world.

I'm also a big fan of The Emporors Babe, by Bernadine Evaristo and Sekhment by Margaret Attwood..

Back from walking the kids and being made to scramble up muddy banks in the wood, so a sit down with a cuppa and reading it was just right. 

I'm not religious, so I hope I don't offend anyone, but know it all from school. I found it really interesting that the poem centers around the tree, the cross and it's part in the crucifixion story. The melding of the differing views of it, from the gilded and jewel bedecked to the simple bloodied base wood of the tree. The idea and symbolism of the tree itself was an interesting take on a story people have heard many times and gives space for different ways of thinking about it I think.

TheCatWoman said:

how does one culture with a very firm set of ideas about the natural world, the Gods nd the people in it, mesh with a very different set of ideas and ways o looking at the world

Is anything known about this in the Anglo-Saxon period or have any theories been proposed?

In some other cultures transition of religion/ideas is believed to have occurred slowly by way of oral tradition over the centuries. Could this be how ideas and beliefs meld in the Anglo-Saxon conversion period even if some people could communicate in writing? Children might grow up listening to storytelling around fireplaces? I have limited knowledge of the Anglo-Saxons so I could be barking up the wrong tree.

TheCatWoman said:

how does one culture with a very firm set of ideas about the natural world, the Gods nd the people in it, mesh with a very different set of ideas and ways o looking at the world

Is anything known about this in the Anglo-Saxon period or have any theories been proposed?

In some other cultures transition of religion/ideas is believed to have occurred slowly by way of oral tradition over the centuries. Could this be how ideas and beliefs meld in the Anglo-Saxon conversion period even if some people could communicate in writing? Children might grow up listening to storytelling around fireplaces? I have limited knowledge of the Anglo-Saxons so I could be barking up the wrong tree.