Illuminated Texts on Anglo-Saxon Poetry

This is an illuminated text for the 'Wanderer' lines nineteen thorugh thirty nine. There is no theme in our animation because we animated line by line to help you visualize what is going on. We felt that this poem evokes a sense of being trapped, while being a hermit so we did a lot of breaking up of phrases with words within them, as you will see with the part of the England outline.

The eyes we choose to view something determines everything. The city of Trenn has clearly been ravaged, looted, and deprived from its lost battle. An eagle looms above picking at the flesh of dead corpses. But buried in the ashes is something more. Buried in the ashes is the courage that Trenn's soldiers manifested, shaming you for not dying nobly with them.

The music of this illumtext is an arrangement of Wagner's Funeral March from musopen.com. It is public domain.

All to Nothing: An Illuminated Text of Deor represents the good, the bad, and the ugly things that people face every day. At times one can feel all alone but bad things happen and we can move past it. The situation may seem impossible to overcome at the moment, but we've been through similar situations before. “That went by, so can this.” Music: Prelude in B Minor No. 15 'Raindrop', Op. 28 http://musopen.org/music/piece/339

This is the Anglo-Saxon poem, The Whale. It is about a mighty whale, that terrorizes sailors. The poem is interesting because it focuses very heavily on imagery, and while the main plot of a malevolent whale is present, the descriptions (his shape is like rough stone//girt by sandbanks for example) are very vivid.

 Christopher and I are doing an illuminated text on the poem Wulf and Eadwacer. The song is called Rain- by Brian Crian. In the illuminated text The song is suppose to symbolize the feeling between Wulf and Eadwacer while the words shape the poem. 

This Illuminated text, created for the poem Deor, provides different effects for each stanza but then connects them all with the line, "That went by, so can this". A common effect throughout the illuminated text is fading, which was used to reinforce the idea found in the poem that everything fades and passes as time goes on. The music in the presentation (Rachmaninov piano concerto 2) is a perfect representation of the poem because both have a common theme, stray off to tell a story, and then comes back to reinforce the main idea that everything passes. (97 words)

The man here is writing back to his wife who is still in the community which he was exiled from. The loneliness slowly eats him alive along with the fact that his wife has been unfaithful, but he cannot stop loving her and asks her to join him in exile.