The Wife's Lament

kingdom. Women in “The Wife’s Lament” and Marie De France’s “Lanval” are depicted differently which exemplifies the importance of social status. First, wealth enables women under any circumstances to obtain a high ranking social status. The narrator in “The Wife’s Lament” is forced to suffer a life of solitude for many reasons thus, one reason is that she has no money and for reasons that are obscure she can no longer be with her husband. The narrator of “The Wife’s Lament” states “I was told to

his life while exploring the depths of the sea. The Wife’s Lament, which is also an Anglo-Saxon poem, is told by the narrator, who is the wife of a man who leaves his country. These poems exhibit first person point of view, which display the theme of writing during this time period and also allows the reader to connect with the writer. These poems resemble in the ways that the narration effects the point of view exhibited. In both The Wife’s Lament and The Seafarer, the writer use the need of sympathy

is out at sea. He is in the middle of a storm, and he does not believe that he is going to return home. The next poem is The Wanderer, here the speaker is now homeless. He was once a great warrior who had lost it all. The final poem is The Wife’s Lament, in this poem a wife is exiled by her husband. She is sent away and told to not come back. The Seafarer,

Exile was the force or chosen movement of a person out of their kingdom and away from their family. The Anglo-Saxon’s were so concerned with the idea of exile, they added it into many of their lyric poems like The Seafarer, The Wanderer, and The Wife’s Lament to show the consequences of being forced to leave their home. The poem’s would bring fear to the Anglo-Saxon’s and showed them the correct way to live and behave within their communities. The Anglo-Saxon’s lived in a world filled with many difficulties

and The Wife’s Lament. In these three poems they tell what it is like to be apart of the Anglo-Saxons code. Unlike the story Beowulf, these stories tell what it really like to be apart of the Anglo-Saxons code. In the poems The Seafarer, The Wanderer, and The Wife’s

and glory. Beowulf shows the fame and glory that comes from following god and king. Beowulf also shows how that even in death one’s fame can become legend. In the three Anglo -Saxon poems “Caedmon of Whitby” and “The Seafarer”, as well as “The Wife's Lament”, we see many of the same themes, death, loyalty to a king, the glory of god, and the fame and glory in all of these things. In “Caedmon of Whitby”, we see the fame and glory that one can achieve by showing his faith in god and that the fame one

to rely on during his journey looking for a new lord. The difference between “The Wanderer” and “The Seafarer” is that the narrator in “The Wanderer” did not choose his exile like the narrator in “The Seafarer.” In the Anglo-Saxon story “The Wife’s Lament”, the exile

Dream of the Rood 1. The speakers described in the story are referred to as the dreamer and a cross. The cross is given huge personification inside the story as it is an inanimate object. Both speakers view Christ as a selfless hero. They use the names such as heavens Lord, the wielder of victories, the prince of glory, and heavens Guardian to describe him. The poet describes Christ as someone who has won a great battle against the sins of mankind. By winning this battle he is able to rebirth into

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 when the kingdoms

Later in the poem, the woman meets another man. This man seemed to be everything the woman needed, until he was revealed as a criminal. Other men disliked her new lover, forcing the woman to live in a cave. Even though the woman from “The Wife’s Lament” moved on from her husband, she was deeply depressed. The woman grieved over her husband, mourning him. She was isolated from him, which was unbearable for her. Throughout the poem, she talks about the hardships of her life and Anglo-Saxon women