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    The Human Condition Does “The Wanderer” fit the elegy genre? Yes, it displays negative and depressing emotions, but also displays the healing after great pain. I’ve felt lost. I’ve felt abandoned and lonely just as you have. We haven’t quite got it figured out yet. So far, all that we have lived and known is love and loss, but that’s it. What happens after loss? The Anglo-Saxon poem The Wanderer seems to have figured out how the heart works and acts in three stages of distress: anhoga (solitary

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    life to go in future. Although they both made different decisions at the end, they assisted each other to settle on the right choice. Drew Hayden Taylor develops a theme of despondency and isolation from peers and loved ones in the novel “The Night Wanderer.” Tiffany and Pierre had many similar attributes that helped them make the right decision on whether or not to keep living. First off, they were both grieving. Tiffany was grieving over finding out her mother abandoned her for a white boyfriend

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    would slowly etch away at even the most stable and peaceful society. This unease spurred Anglo-Saxon poets to write some of their most beautiful, haunting pieces of verse, like Hrothgar’s Sermon from Beowulf and the Elegies. While the poems “The Wanderer” and “The Wife’s Lament” chronicle the suffering and eventual demise of the individual, “The Ruin” describes the crumbling remains of a once-glorious city. Through the extensive use of imagery, compelling rhythm, and a stately meter, the poet of

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    to find hope. Much like in the Anglo-Saxon poem, “The Wanderer”, the main character, having lost his kinsmen and lord in war, battles with his own loneliness but attempts to remain hopeful for the day that he will find a new home and purpose in life. Through the use of elegiac tone and symbolism the unknown author shows that if a person wants to overcome their depression they must remain hopeful. The elegiac tone expressed in “The Wanderer” is that of loneliness and longing, and is recurring throughout

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    This is most definitely the case in three elegies from The Exeter Book, titled “The Seafarer,” “The Wife’s Lament,” and “The Wanderer,” which all share a theme of exile, even though it appears in different ways. In “The Seafarer,” it appears through the wretchedness of the narrator, in “The Wife’s Lament,” it appears through the anger of the narrator, and, lastly, in “The Wanderer,” it appears through loneliness and the melancholy attitude of the narrator. Theme is not the only thing that the elegies

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    short stories “Ballet” by Pete Fromm and “A Wanderer” by Josip Novakovich, the relationship between characters were on the brink of destruction, which adds immense amounts of conflict to the plot and leads to their characterization and development. For example, in “Ballet”, the young narrator attempts to mend his parents strained relationship, due to his father’s infidelity, causing their family dynamics to be originally deemed doomed. Likewise, in “A Wanderer”, fourteen-year-old Neda

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    which displays a solemn tone followed by a serious reflection. Unlike “The Seafarer”, the speaker has developed a deepening voice of Christian Values. The speaker's introduction expressed the voice of a christian moralist as he says, “..oft to the wanderer, weary of exile, cometh God’s pity, compassionate love. Though woefully toiling on wintry seas”. The speaker’s exile causes him to feel unrighteous and unaccepted by God. In the poem the man further details his emotions of loss due to the the death

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    poems, or songs, they wrote and sang. The themes of these poems were created, in some manner, to “scare” people to follow rules, therefore most were about exile. Just like fear, exile takes on many forms and can derive from many places. “The Wanderer,” is a Anglo-Saxon poem with a theme of exile. Exile in this poem comes to a man who has lost his lord and kinsmen in war. He was not exiled by punishment, but rather by a series of tragic events. The man is especially lonely with nobody to keep

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    Journey of the Wanderer I have never felt such radical emotions. It makes me wonder if any other purposeless wanderers can empathize with my position. There is no home where I belong, nor is there any nomadic reason to travel with my quarters wherever I go. As for my origins, I am still unaware of any childhood memories, or misadventures. For the only path I can now travel is beyond the trees, and across the glittering grass fields reflecting the array of the wondrous moonlight. I found myself

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    could affect a man in any state such as, physically, mentally and also emotionally. For “the Seafarer,” “The Wanderer,” and the wife writing in “The wife’s lament,” describe how being exiled shaped their way of living and thinking. Being in hard circumstances made all three poems and writers realize that getting out their “Comfort zone” was necessary to survive. “The Seafarer,” “The Wanderer,” and The “Wife’s Lament” explain how the theme of exile puts an emotional struggle, sorrow and the lack of

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