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
poetry. No matter in “The Seafarer”, whose narrator bears a lonely sea journey and turns to god for help; in “The Wanderer”, in which the traveler wanders alone over the sea with no family left, but keeps his faith in god; or in “The Wife’s Lament”, whose female figure expresses the deep grief of husband’s betrayal and relieves through anger, all poems expose the reality that people are suffering from the loneliness but finding ways to cope with their problems. In “The Seafarer”, the main idea is to
isolation and despair through their writing. Despite evoking a morbid tone throughout the first half of “The Seafarer”, the speaker sheds a light of hope in the second half. Here he acknowledges the power of God and highlights the righteous path. Those descriptions are indicative of the Christian faith. The speaker’s struggle is an allusion to the Anglo-Saxon community’s struggle in finding the rightful God. And so “The Seafarer” serves as a form of propaganda that seeks to promote the conversion
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