The story promotes: "A mighty monster, living/ In the darkness, growled in pain, impatient, As day after day the music sounded/ Loud in this hall" ( Lines 1-4). Images show an image of a monster in the dark suffering while music plays loudly. This shows that the monster in the dark hates loud music. Another example of imagery in Beowulf is when Beowulf fights a dragon and his shield melts. The story implies: "To his fate." The flames struck the iron/shield, and for a time it held firm, protecting Beowulf as he had intended; then it began to melt” (Lines 682-684). Beowulf uses the shield to protect himself from the flames. Once he used the flame shield, it became so hot that it melted. Furthermore, in an article discussing the imagery, a critic states: "It has a pictorial power of great quality, and the myth of summer and winter on which it is based comes from the imagination of the natural and primitive world” (Brooke). The narrator tells the story with sensation and emotion, giving the image of the story to the mind. This gives the power to imagine what is happening in the story without