The Wife's Lament

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 “The Ruin” emphasizes

The Wanderer and The Wife's Lament Journal In this week, the document that I read is The Wanderer and The Wife's Lament. While reading this document, I was surprised by the husband’s action that he abandoned his wife in his heartache. The reason that the woman and her husband married was to make peace instead of love; however, they still loved each other after marrying and swore that nothing could separate them excepted the death (Anonymous 114). For me, the husband abandoned his wife because of

special notoriety: “The Seafarer”, “The Wanderer”, and “Wife’s Lament”. Each of these poems have a bleak tone to them, and they speak of wandering and loss, whether it’s an emotional or physical loss. Both of the speakers in “The Seafarer” and “The Wanderer” feel emotional loss and sadness while at sea, but believe that by being faithful and continuing on their earthly journey, they will, in the end, achieve true happiness. The wife in “Wife’s Lament” has suffered the physical loss of her husband, and

Anglo-Saxon literature often expressed concepts of survival, battle, exile, male dominance in society, and loyalty to the lord. These aspects are strongly represented in both “The Wanderer” and “The Wife’s Lament”. Both elegies deliver themes of self-exile and the mourning of lost companions. Ideas of longing and alienation are present in these two Anglo-Saxon poems through use of figurative language, structure, point of view, comparison, and various other literary techniques. In “The Wanderer”

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. The Seafarer, The Wanderer, and The Wife’s Lament all contain keening in the personalized poems, in many lines. The Wanderer is a poem based on a soldier who went into exile because of the death of his dear lord. In line twenty

When it comes to exile it’s being banished from your everyday way of life away from civilization. While being used in Beowulf, “The Wife’s Lament”, and “The Wanderer” it gives the reader a somewhat sympathetic insight of what’s going on. In Beowulf, Grendel was born into exile because of his family evil doings. “The Wife’s Lament” is separated from her lover and banished to exile to live without her lover. In “The Wanderer” a battle begins and he loses all of his kinsmen and then he becomes living

poems, it is evident that death and abandonment cause loss of self. In The Wife’s Lament Anglo Saxon literature displays loss of self due to abandonment . Slowly as the poem progresses, the woman starts to lose her state of mind, exiled she experiences the betrayal of her followers. For “The Dark of My Exile” (The Wife's Lament 5) A feeling of dejection.. “I make this song about me full sadly” (The Wife’s Lament 1). This woman had no one. Nothing, nothing but herself. “I had few loved ones

that’s most commonly used to honor the dead.’ Considering the Anglo-Saxon traits of loneliness,sadness, and tragedy, “The Seafarer,” “The Wanderer,” and “The Wife’s Lament” all exhibit typical characteristics of this influential time period through the How to Read Poetry notes. To begin with, “The Seafarer,” “The Wanderer,” and “The Wife’s Lament” all exhibit the trait of loneliness. “I can make a true

poems from Exeter Book were The Seafarer, The Wanderer, and The Wife’s Lament. In these three poems from Exeter Book three messages of loneliness, exile, and the effect of relationships appear throughout them. In The Seafarer,

because it is how authors organized their poems or stories, includes repetition which aids memorization, and emphasizes important parts of the text that the author wants the audience to know. Alliteration in important in both “The Wanderer” and “The Wife’s Lament” because it helps evoke certain emotions and feelings by using the different functions of alliterative language. In Anglo-Saxon works of literature, alliterations are used with stresses to organize poems and to create a certain flow. There are