Source Database:
ELMCIP
Source Entry URL:
Source Entry OAI-PMH Identifier:
oai:elmcip.net:6461
Source Entry Language(s):
English
Description(s):
This poem reads like a riddle in the Anglo-Saxon poetic tradition evidenced in Beowulf and the Exeter Book. A common characteristic is for the object to be the speaker describing itself through personification, metaphor, and double entendres (often sexual). (Source: Leonardo Flores, I ♥ E-Poetry)