until 1842. The Seafarer, The Wanderer and The Wife’s Lament make up three of the poems in the Exeter Book. The speaker in The Seafarer tells the story of a man at sea who cannot seem to escape his struggles of isolation. In The Wanderer, a lonely traveler speaks of his loneliness while he reminisces on the good times before his exile. The Wife’s Lament takes the perspective of a women living in exile, unlike the two previous poems in The Exeter, which speak of men. In The Seafarer, The Wanderer
In “The Seafarer,” “The Wanderer,” and “The Wife’s Lament” the narrator reveals many Anglo-Saxon ideals that present loneliness as a terrifying prospect. In each poem, a person is stranded to face the terrors of the Anglo-Saxon era on their own, with little to no reconcile for their hardships. While many aspects of the narrators change, such as gender or occupation, they are all elegies that present a mournful tone. In “The Seafarer,” “The wanderer,” and “The Wife’s Lament” the narrators discuss
in the Anglo-Saxon elegies of The Seafarer, The Wanderer, and The Wife's Lament. Although the original language may have been lost throughout the centuries, their morals are still felt today. Each character in the poems face tribulations that they have to overcome through different means. The characters take a different spin on their tribulations and in turn bring a different perspective of beauty through their experience. The character found in The Seafarer walks down a road of despair that
In the excerpts from “Beowulf” and “The Wife’s Lament” the themes anger and betrayal is present as an overall meaning towards heroism and love. To begin with, Unferth does not like Beowulf presence. To demonstrate, “The brave seafarer, much displeased him in that he was unwilling for any man in this wide world to gain more glory than himself” (Beowulf, 420). Clearly, Unferth does not see any other man as a hero other than himself. To explain, If Unferth himself could not destroy Grendel what makes