The Wife's Lament

Loneliness, Sorrow, and Companionship in ¨The Wife’s Lament¨ The Wife’s Lament is about loneliness, sorrow and companionship. ¨The Wife’s Lament¨, translated by Richard Hamer, describes the feelings of a woman who is grieving about the absence of her lord or husband. The poem is a written as a woman's song. The woman is frustrated that she is separated from her lover and that she is unable to mend her situation. We can see loneliness and grief reflected in the poem because the woman talks about

In the past, Anglo- Saxon’s believed that human life was shaped by fate. Many still agree with the Anglo- Saxon belief today. 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

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

The “Seafarer” and the “Wife’s Lament” poems are series of Anglo-Saxon exile poem. Each poem has its own syntaxes, however throughout the Seafarer and Wife’s Lament poem the theme of loneliness is the underline vividly to the reader. In the Seafarer and the Wife’s Lament, both characters are exiled and in great sadness, however, the Seafarer’s view of heaven allows him to see a future beyond his hardships. Even though the “ Wife’s Lament” and “Seafarer” have similar tone in essence, however the

The poems “The Seafarer,” “The Wanderer,” and “The Wife’s Lament” are all similar because they all involve exile. Exile means leaving all your family, friends and a place once grown up in. Now if someone were to leave their country, friends, and family, how would they might feel? Many would probably say it sucks. In this paper I am going to be talking about the three poems and telling the fervent of them. In the “Seafarer” the picture shows the people being in the ocean trying to go a direction

bragging about their achievements and challenges in order to build a positive reputation about themselves. In the Anglo-Saxon era, Warriors had to talk themselves up,boasting and making claims about their past victories. In Grendel, Beowulf and The Wife’s Lament, we see the struggle of identity passed through,questioning,building and breaking of these characters in an orderly fashion to bring forth their created identities. As Grendel is often viewed as a nuisance to society,nothing more than a heartless

Seafarer/The Wife’s Lament When isolated from society, loneliness becomes a part of you. In the poems, The Wife’s Lament translated by Ann Stanford and The Seafarer translated by Burton Raffel, are two similar and different poems. The characters in these poems handle their exiles in different ways. The way the two characters reflect from their exile is based off Anglo-Saxon values and beliefs. These poems compare and contrast the exile between men and women. In The Wife’s Lament, the wife is

Throughout history many individuals participate in 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

book, as each speaker has faced hardships that has led them to their current situations. “The Seafarer” and “The Wander” have quite a bit in common, especially when they conclude with trying to find happiness within their lives. However, “The Wife's Lament” takes a different turn, as she decides to spend her days sorrowfully with her “bitter companion” (31), as “The Wanderer” explained. While they are not the happiest stories, they truly capture how humans react to situations and the types of journeys

imaginable because their society valued companionship and loyalty. The Anglo-Saxon elegies portray sadness and mourning because of the speaker’s exile, but at the same time a veiled beauty. The elegies, “The Seafarer,” “The Wanderer,” and “The Wife’s Lament,” exhibit the seemingly contrasting traits of misery and beauty. “The Seafarer” shows beauty in the contrast between the sailor’s exile from youth and the joy he finds in God. The seafarer contrastingly states, “Thus the joys of God / Are fervent