Beowulf is an Old English poem. Throughout the poem, Raffel uses figurative language and rhetorical devices that create certain tones. His use of imagery and metaphor aid in provoking emotions and settings for the audience. Including allusions and the narrator's point of view informs the audience of things the characters don’t know or a way to connect events to emphasize on certain ideas. Through metaphors and imagery, these lines create an astonished tone. When describing a song playing from the mead hall, the narrators writes, “A gleaming plain girdled with waters; In His splendour, he set the sun and moon, to be earth’s lamplight, lanterns for men…” In the line, “A gleaming plain girdled with waters.” The narrator uses imagery, this imagery