The Seafarer

The Anglo Saxon period of time was filled with a great deal of grief and lament. There were various kinds of writings about individuals facing arduous times in their lives. The poems “The Seafarer”, “The Wanderer”, and the “Wife’s Lament” are all examples of different pieces of writing of the Anglo Saxon period. Some of the poems focused on certain dispute, while the others included a wide variety of subject matter including religious beliefs. All of the poems are considered to be elegies expressing

Exile is commonly seen in Anglo-Saxon literature, specifically the poems: The Wanderer, The Wife’s Lament, and The Seafarer. All three poems deal with the idea of losing something and missing the something so much it pains them to think about it. Although in many cases, the person experiencing exile has nothing to do but think about their exile. In The Wanderer, the speaker has lost all of his kinsman over time. He feels exiled by his “misery, grievous disasters, and death of kin” and he is “weary

The poems The Seafarer, The Wanderer, and The Wife’s Lament all help to shed light on this belief that fate shapes the human life. The Anglo- Saxon’s led harsh lives, and were often only relying on fate to save them. They admired humans quality of strength but ultimately the people were subjects to an unyielding destiny. In the poem The Seafarer, the speaker recalls that his home is on the sea. The sea is something human can not have control over, one must trust God. The Seafarer helps to show

exile due to civil war, politics, and poverty. The Seafarer, The Wanderer, and The Wife's Lament all contain verses of fate, loneliness and exile. The three poems are very similar, but at the same time contain contradictory ideas. . The three poems ranging from a lonely man, to a lost soldier, to a wife's bed rail. The Anglo-Saxon poems show hurt, confusion, and loneliness. You must be asking yourself, how do these poems link? Within The Seafarer, he mourns for the sea when he is on land, but seeks

It’s easy to tell that the ocean is a mysterious and isolating place from all of the tragic tales we hear from sailors both real and fictional. Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” and an anonymous author’s “The Seafarer” are quite similar in that they both revolve around said tragic tales told by sailors. However, there seem to be more commonalities between their themes, tones, and messages rather than their seaward-bound settings. But before we can discuss these similar settings

Anglo Saxon poems revolved around the threat of exile. The writings reflected the fear that many faced when exile threatened them. “The Seafarer,” “The Wanderer,” and “The Wife’s Lament,” each have a source of Anglo-Saxon anxiety of exile. This shows up in their writings and their emotions. Anglo Saxon concepts of exile include the loss of a remembered home, it could be forced upon or chosen, and it can be used as a punishment; because Anglo Saxons believe in kinsmanship. Along with the belief of

considering an individual’s place in society. Social classes played an important role to an individual physiologically. In particular, the three poems The Wanderer, The Seafarer, and The Wife’s Lament reflect profusely on determining a person’s emotions. Throughout the poems there are numerable rhetorical elements. The Wanderer, The Seafarer, and The Wife’s Lament share a theme of Exile, a tonal shift from loneliness and Imagery to promote a clear understanding of how these people are faced with severe

Sorrow and Sadness Elegy About two hundred thousand people die a day, and fifty-six million die a year. Each person lost daily and yearly has to leave behind a loved one. In the Exeter book “The Seafarer” translated by Ralph Burton, “The Wanderer” translated by Charles W. Kennedy, and “The Wife’s Lament” translated by Ann Stanford can all be summarized in saying that they have to deal with the pain and sadness of losing a significant other. Each was miserable and had to find a way to cope with the

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.      "The Seafarer" creates a storyline of a man

lords. In The Seafarer and most other Anglo-Saxton Lyric poems, they tell a tale of exile from a single speaker, it brings the raw emotion and mood of the story reminding us that pain has no limits. The predominant mood in the The Seafarer is one of discontent and sorrow. The Seafarer’s mood starts with depression and sorrow telling of hardships he endured in the sea. He describes his travels, “How the sea took me, swept me back and forth in sorrow and fear and pain.” (The Seafarer 21). It showed