‘Beowulf: the Monsters and the Critics’ circles line 52 of Beowulf, words that draw before our eyes ‘heroes under heaven’ who have forgotten the final destination of the funeral-ship of the mythical king who came out of the sea. This scene is the additional content required to make sense of the allegory of the tower. Attention is drawn to a stirring paragraph in the essay that describes the panoramic view from the top of the tower as the heroes under heaven turn inland to face the monsters that will defeat them in the end. The allegory of the tower suggests that the Anglo-Saxon poet saw further over the horizon than noble heathens on the ground like Beowulf.