Beowulf to Epic Hero of Today

"True Blue Revolutionaries or Tired Beowulf Reruns"
"Beowulf to Batman: The Epic Hero and Pop Culture" by Roger B. Rollins compares the design of the epic poetry to the design of today's pop culture. The epic poem refers to Anglo-Saxon poems such as Beowulf. Pop culture refers to movies, shows, and comics of today such as Batman and Spiderman. The main point of Rollin's essay is to show the significance of epic poetry to the modern day pop culture. He does so by showing the connections between the two, and the similar purposes the stories serve. …