... water and fire, youth and old age, life and death, rise and fall of nations and individuals, friendship and desertion (sự ruồng bỏ), faithfulness and betrayal (sự phản bội), heroism and cowardice ... about life, the universe and nature, as well as Christian thought and moral values. There is often no clear-cut delineation between religious and non-religious poetry. Old English poetry included ... Poem and its Structure The central hero of the poem is Beowulf, and its main stories are Beowulf's fights against two monsters, a male and a female, Grendel and Grendel's mother, and...