Poem "The Dream of Rood"

This poem was used in order to passively persuade the reader into believing the message within the poem: -God and all that is heavenly exists through obeying Christianity and the church. This narration was conspired with writing techniques, used to indirectly pass along the message mentioned above. Descriptive, metaphorical and personification techniques are some of the tools used to confirm the passages of the Bible. The bible and the "unidentified author"(a brilliant writer within the church) are from which this poem advocates power in its authenticity to be the truth. The author starts off to tell the story of a dream that wasn't just a dream; it was the "best of dreams". (Paragraph one) His "vision" or dream was that of a great tree, which later takes control of the poem by speaking, telling the story of Christ, and offering another point of view for the reader to suckle from. …