The Seafarer Culture

In the poem, Home by Pauline Kaldas, upon moving to Boston, the speaker expresses her longing for her hometown. She misses the atmosphere, the crowdedness, and the food that Cairo, her indigenous hometown possesses. The poem conveys that no matter where one goes to, it will never feel as sound and as delightful as home.

“The Seafarer” is about a lonely sailor who accepts the fact that the sea wills always call for him. This poem is written in a sorrowful mood. The speaker talks as if they are miserable. In the poem, the speaker gives many images for example “ The only sound was the roaring

The Seafarer, The Wanderer, and The Wife’s Lament all contains faith verses fate. The three poems are very similar and very different. The three poems ranging from a lonely man, to a lost soldier, to a wife’s bedrail. The medieval poems show hurt, confusion, and loneliness.

JAMES HURST Adapted from: Elements of Literature: Third Course. Austin: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. 2003.

Summary: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" by Oliver Sacks is a collection of cases and studies of patients with bizarre neurological disorders. The neurological disorders discussed include examples of deficits, excesses, reminiscence, and the "world of the simple". Neurologist Oliver Sacks discusses the stories of his patients and patients of other neurologists while appealing to logos, ethos, and pathos. Throughout the text there is a fair balance between logos, ethos, and pathos.

Traveling overseas can be a fun, dangerous and fulfilling trip. Luke traveled across the Atlantic Ocean 16 times and the Pacific Ocean twice during his Seagoing Cowboy career. He helped people affected by World War 2.

The Anglo-Saxon time period was a very transitional period for the British Isles. At this time, people were shifting from the warrior culture of Paganism to the more materialistic views of Christianity. The Pagans had no fear in death, knowing that leading an honorable life would ensure some sort of afterlife for them. Those who took up Christianity found solidarity in God, and believed that pleasing him would ensure salvation and acceptance into heaven. The author of “The Seafarer” brings both ideologies together in his poem, highlighting a similarity between the two opposing religions. Regardless of religion, the afterlife is the end goal. The poem shows humans have always had an underlying faith in life after death. The Seafarer represents

Unlike the wandering narrator, the seafaring narrator focuses his descriptions of the community that is present in nature. The seafarer the utterly rejects the notion that a “sheltering family / could bring consolation for his desolate soul” (25-26). This “sheltering family” (25) that the seafaring narrator alludes to in this line is the exact form of close-knit family that the narrator in “The Wanderer” laments for desperately. While the seafaring narrator offers striking similar descriptions of the landscape being “bound by ice” (9), he does not focus on these descriptions to dwell on the loss of an earthly community. Instead, the narrator in “The Seafarer” finds the landscape that he inhabits wonderfully abundant with natural — even spiritual — elements that are commonly associated with an earthly community. In the barren landscape, the seafaring narrator discovers “the wild swan’s song / sometimes served for music” (19-20) and “the curlew’s cry for the laugher of men” (20-21). These vibrant and vivid descriptions of the natural world that the narrator discovers in the harsh,

As the ancient Mariner described his adventures at sea to the Wedding-Guest, the Guest became saddened because he identified his own selfish ways with those of the Mariner. The mariner told the Guest that he and his ship-mates

The Seafarer by Burton Raffel was written during the Anglo-Saxon period where the Anglo-Saxon warriors lived to defend their King, like in the story Sir Gawain and The Green Knight. One of the warriors speaks about his challenges and begins saying that his story is not at all joyful. It is a story full of pain and suffering. The story paints a picture of what it means to be “dislocated”, “set out”, all by oneself and how badly it feels. “My feet were cast in icy bands, bound with frost,with frozen chains, and hardship groaned around my heart. Hunger tore at my sea-weary soul. No man sheltered on the quiet fairness of earth can feel how wretched I was”.(Raffel 1) The powerful imagery in this stanza sets the tone that the narrator is trying to

Throughout the history of British Literature, there have always been the themes of loneliness, torment or exile. Many times authors speak from their experiences and at times those experiences have to do with misery and discomfort with their lifestyles. In the Renaissance age, times were not always happy and people chose to pass on stories generation to generation to reveal their feelings and experiences. Poems made a great impact in easing the pain. In the poems, "The Seafarer" and "The Wanderer", the themes of loneliness and exile exist throughout both of the poems. The unknown authors portray the two themes through detail and emotion.

A man chosen as a seafarer endures alone in a blue abyss and survives through the harsh winds and hostile territory alone, with none to confide his suffering to other than himself, and virtually no reasons to continue the sufferation known as life, yet, despite the odds, he lives on, and tells his suffering in a poem known as “The Seafarer”. In “The Seafarer”, the author of the poem releases his long held suffering about his prolonged journey in the sea. While the poem explains his sufferings, the poem also reveals why he endured anguish, and lived on, even though the afterlife tempted him. Besides expressing his reasons to live, more importantly, the poem narrates the huge impacts of Christianity on him.

When Filipinos hear the word ‘seaman’ or seafarer’, we generally have a constructed stereotype to judge that person from the said line of work. Usually, they are regarded as well-off, an owner of a rather big house in the neighborhood, and of the upper middle class. In other words, seafarers are highly regarded in a typical Filipino community to the extent that they are misjudged by many just because of their nature of work and this becomes a ground for social alienation amongst members of the society. Though this does not generally detach the modern Filipino seafarer to its contribution to the nation’s progress, the trouble begins when they are dealing with their own families; such is the psychological effect of alienation for Overseas Filipino Workers such as seafarers and the most worry-some is the rift created between their children

Ancient Greeks predominantly lived in on island archipelagos or on the coast of nearby mainland because mainland Greece is one of Europe’s most mountainous countries, which complicates animal and crop husbandry. Correspondingly, seafaring has always been paramount in the Aegean, especially for the Greeks, due to ease of transportation, trade networks, and defensive needs. Mainland Greeks utilized seafaring to bring in necessities cheaper than they could produce them at home, and they saved time traveling by land, rather than trek the long way through the mountains. When living on islands, sea travel is a necessity to contact outsiders and participate in extensive trade. Even Greeks in Homer’s epics appear to know the sea well (Mark 2005, 145). Despite Greek seafaring’s prominence, archeological and textual evidence for seafaring in the Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Aegean is relatively sparse, with a near-lack of physical boat remains. Filling in holes, such as with literary sources, in the timeline of Aegean seafaring provides a greater understanding of the development of Greek ships, as well as the cultural implications of the technology invoked. The most extensive textual source of this era’s seafaring is Homer’s epics, but they are epic poetry of the eighth or early seventh century BCE concerning Greece’s heroic, mythical past. Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey are set in the Bronze Age, yet include Iron Age elements (Mark 2005,

[and] so graced by God”. The speaker clearly uses alliteration to express his feelings towards his journey. He also establishes to the reader that he is influenced by a religious motive. His ideas may have contributed to the religious values the Anglo- Saxons believed in: Pagan, and Christian. The man also describes his experience on sea as he , “drifting [drifted] through winter on an ice cold sea, whirled in sorrow, alone in a world blown clear of love, hung with icicles. Through the use of imagery we can understand the isolated setting of the ocean, and how his loneliness led to a deepening sadness. Overall, “The Seafarer” influenced today’s literature through the use of various literary devices. The man’s personal feelings and ideas about