Soul and Body I
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Soul and Body I is an Old English religious poem that dramatizes a dialogue between a soul and its corpse, reflecting on sin, judgment, and the afterlife.
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| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Soul and Body I canonical | 1 |
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Old English poem
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religious poem ⓘ |
| aim |
to encourage repentance
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to prepare the audience for judgment ⓘ |
| audience | Christian Anglo-Saxon listeners or readers ⓘ |
| concerns |
eschatology
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individual judgment after death ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | England ⓘ |
| dialogueParticipants |
corpse
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soul ⓘ |
| didacticFunction |
moral instruction
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warning against sin ⓘ |
| focus | fate of the sinful soul ⓘ |
| genre |
dialogue poem
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religious poetry ⓘ |
| imagery |
corpse in the grave
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torment of the soul ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Christian homiletic tradition
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medieval eschatological teaching ⓘ |
| language | Old English ⓘ |
| literaryForm | verse ⓘ |
| literaryMotif |
body-soul debate
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memento mori ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Old English period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| literaryTradition | body and soul debate tradition ⓘ |
| meter | alliterative verse ⓘ |
| moralPerspective | orthodox Christian ⓘ |
| narrativeDevice | dialogue between soul and corpse ⓘ |
| originalScript | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
| philosophicalTopic |
nature of the soul
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relationship between body and soul ⓘ |
| religiousTradition | Christianity ⓘ |
| setting | after death ⓘ |
| subjectMatter | post-mortem fate of the sinner ⓘ |
| theme |
afterlife
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divine judgment ⓘ judgment ⓘ penitence ⓘ relationship between soul and body ⓘ resurrection of the body ⓘ sin ⓘ |
| tone |
admonitory
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somber ⓘ |
| workType | didactic religious poem ⓘ |
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