Caedmon's Hymn

In all literature, the author is at the forefront of constructing text and all its meaning. The author is tasked with the important duty of ascribing meaning to their text when composing a piece of literature. However, within the process of composition the reader must acknowledge the author’s positionality and experiences in regards to their work too. That is to say, the reader is able to infer the significance of the author’s role as the conveyor of ideas through the author’s experiences, occupation, or idiosyncrasies. Furthermore, this provides the opportunity for the reader to highlight how that position and those experiences influence the significance of the author’s work.
The author of a text tends to write from a place of authenticity,
Cademon uses “God’s gift” to “[compose] many other [poems] about divine rewards and judgments… and he took care to draw men away from the love of sin and wickedness, and to arouse them towards love and desire of desire of good deeds” (Bebe 9). This draws back to the parallel between Bebe and the character Cademon. Bebe’s position in society warrants that he do God’s work and convert people to Christian ideals. With both him and Cademon being “very pious [men], humbly devoted to monastic discipline” as Christian monks it allows the reader to again infer that Bebe seeks to convert people to Christian ideology through this piece. Also, it should be noted that Cademon continues to fulfill the role as the embodiment of Bebe, the ideal Christian whom Bebe seeks to convert people into, and reflection of Bebe’s Christian ideology. Still, whether the piece was effective or not, if “[people] wished to act in other ways” it would not matter because “[Bebe and his character Cademon] were very fervently inspired in [their] zealous aim” (Bebe