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I Identify the following excerpts (provide the title, the name of the author - when applicable - and the name of the literary period to which a given work belongs). Answer one accompanying ąuestion in approximately 100 words.

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Thro' wan night striding, came the walker-in-shadow. Warriors slept whose hest was to guard the gabled hall, — all save one. 'Twas widely known that against God's will the ghostly ravager him could not hurl to haunts of darkness; wakeful, ready, with warrior's wrath, bold he bided the battle's issue.

THEN from the moorland, by misty crags, with God's wTath laden, Grendel came.

The monster was minded of mankind now sundiy to seize in the stately house.

Under welkin he waLked, till the wine-palace there, gold-hall of men, he gladly discemed, flashing with fretwork.

Discuss Christian elements in the excerpt ąuoted above and in the whole work from which this excerpt is taken.

2)

MARK but-this flea, and mark in this,

How little that which thou deniest me is;

It suck'd me ftrst, and nowsucks thee,

And in this flea-out tw^hloods mingled be.

Thou know'st thaubis cannot be said A sin, nor shamefnorLoss of maidenhead ;

Yet this enpys beforerit woo,

And parfiper'd swells wnfr.one blood madę of two ;

And this, alas! is morę than we would do.

In what sense the flea could be said to be better off than the speaker? Discuss this kind of reasoning and place in the context of the appropriate literary tradition.

3)

Of Mans First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal tast Brought Death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of EDEN, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissfu! Seat,

Sing Heav'nly Muse, that on the secret top Of OREB, or of SINAI, didst inspire That Shepherd, who first taught the chosen Seed, In the Beginning how the Heav'ns and Earth Rosę out of CHAOS: Or if SION Hill Delight thee morę, and SILOA'S Brook that flow'd Fast by the Oracle of God; I thence Invoke thy aid to my adventrous Song,

That with no middle flight intends to soar Above th' AONIAN Mount, while it pursues Things unattempted yet in Prose or Rhime.

Discuss the excerpt ąuoted above as an attempt to fuse the classical and the Christian tradition.