Doctorate student and instructor, Evelyn Reynolds, in her analysis, “Beowulf’s Poetics of Absorption”, describes the usage of thematic and narrative elements to affect the mood and feelings of readers. Reynolds’s purpose is to provide in-depth analysis of the narrator’s usage of specific textual elements, in which she embraces her own knowledge of Old English, and showcases the narrator’s subtle appeal to instinctual human responses. Evelyn Reynolds is a graduate student at the University of Indiana and graduate of the University of Tulsa. Having a basic understanding of the original text allows Reynolds to emerge above her peers when researching and analyzing a text. Some of Reynolds’s other work includes analyses of other Old and Middle