The Seafarer Vs. The Wanderer Vs. The Wife's Lament Essay

expressed all the ways and values of the Anglo-Saxon people. “The seafarer”, “the wanderer”, and “the wife's lament” being part of the Exeter book expressed the central theme of isolationism. The elegy “The Seafarer” is poem about a man who both loves and hates the sea. Elegiac tradition is one of many Anglo-Saxon elements express throughout the poem. An elegy being a mournful or melancholy poem, especially a funeral song or a lament for the dead. In lines 80-83 the man exclaims “The days are gone