Discussion Post
For this discussion, you're responding to the first part of Beowulf, lines 1-835. I'd like you to focus this discussion in particular on the way that the speaker or poet represents Grendel. What kind of language does the speaker use when he's representing Grendel? Do you notice any changes in the tone of the writing, or in the way that language is used? What is he compared to? How is he understood? And finally, what kind of monster is he, from what you can tell with what the text gives you? Try to direct your discussion to one or more of these questions.