Comparison Of Satan And Christ By Ericksen

The first argument made by Ericksen is the poems genre. Ericksen begins the article by showing the similarities and differences to the previous poems in the Junius manuscript. These differences and similarities include how the pages of the previous poems are visually clean, whereas, “Satan and Christ” has “worn-looking pages, with more corrections and more densely written text.” (302) These differences show that the physical condition of “Christ and Satan” indicates that it was handled differently than were its companion poems; one possible explanation for this that the poem with its affinities with a category of literature, wisdom literature.” (302) While this poem falls into the wisdom literature genre because it tends to focus more on the