Hrothgar is a vehicle through which poetics creates foreshadowing; the most revealing part of this passage is at the very end where the poet writes “and death will come, / dear warrior, to take you away” (1767-1768). It is not the inevitability of death that portends; is this the metaphor that death will take you away. To be carried away means to go somewhere else, or to be so absorbed in something that it takes you away from reality or makes you forget what is important. At the end of the poem, Beowulf is carried away by the assertion that, since he has killed monsters before he can do it again, this pride in his past glory leads him to death, where he is carried away.