Literary Features of Anglo Saxon Period
For the first time English literature came into trace in Old English or Anglo-Saxon Period with some transparent features which are as follows;
- Anonymous literary works
- Domination of paganism
- Strong belief in fate
- Absence of romantic love
- Respectful attitude to women
- Love for adventure and heroic activity
- Complicated language using metaphors, similes, and alliteration
- End-rhyme is ignored
- Irony
- Christian Ideas
