Need interpretation in lines from Beowulf?

Question

I'm writting an essay on the epic Beowulf, and I need clarification in the interpretation on the following Lines:

1004- "Wanting to stay we go,
All beings here on God's earth, wherever it is written that we go, taking our bodies
From death's cold bed to the unbroken sleep
That follow's life's feast"

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance!

Answer 1

I believe that it's saying they are going to "keep on truckin.'"
Life moves them into action, into whatever is in store for them.

Answer 2

It's about death. It's always about death. If it's not about death it's about sex. This one is about death.

I have always liked Beowulf.

Let's see...
Wanting to stay we go, (the compulsion is stronger than personal will)
All beings here on God's earth, (no one is exempt)
wherever it is written that we go (predestiny, it's out of our hands)
taking our bodies from death's cold bed to the unbroken sleep that follows life's feast (immortality, Vallhalla, heaven... the realm where the spirit dwells after the mortal shell is shed.)

hope that helps :)

Answer 3

the initiating of Beowulf, until now the author starts off telling the story, tells the reader what makes a hero in Anglo-Saxon way of existence. That way, the reader who isn't from that era can understand the movements and conflicts of the heroes in the story by using information the way it could have appeared to a as much as date reader.

Answer 4

No matter how much we'd like to live, everyone dies. Our fate is predetermined by forces unknowable ('wherever it is written that we go'); even where we go after death (the "cold bed" of the funeral) is unknown, yet predetermined, and eternal.

Answer 5

We want to live, but we die anyway & enter heaven from the grave after a full & wonderful life. does that sound reasonable?