Dream of the Rood

Symbolism is no stranger to the poem Dream of the Rood, the narrator describes a symbolic dream he had thought out the poem. He first starts off with the beautiful tree. “Beauteous tree uplifted in the air, enwreathed with light, brightest of beams”.

Evil within Good

“Dream of the Rood” tells the story of Jesus’s crucifixion in the perspective of the rood. This unique perspective sheds lights…

The crucifixion in the “Dream of the Rood”

This poem interprets a dream to attract Anglo-Saxon pagans to Christianism. It…

The Dream of The Rood and The Crucifix

There seems to be a back and forth, two narrator situation in the story that feels almost…

The relationship between Christ and the Rood in “The Dream of the Rood”

“the Dream of the Rood” was in a point of view within two perspectives, the rood and the man who is having the dream. What really stood out to me was how the rood’s perspective was so detailed. The Rood and Christ had the same “war-like experience” when…

“Dream of the Rood”

The Dream of the Rood starts as if the narrator was a normal person dreaming about a precious tree that was put down and fallen. The…