All three of the poems that we read from the Exeter Book specifically talk about people suffering throughout the poem. In The Seafarer, a man is lost and sea and is writing about his insane suffering and all of the things that he misses from his home village. “How the sea took me, swept me back and forth in sorrow and fear and pain, showed me suffering in a hundred ships, in a thousand ports, and in me. It tells of smashing surf when I sweated in the cold of an anxious watch, perched in the bow as it dashed under cliffs.” (Page 21, Lines 2-9) This quote shows just how bad the author of this poem is suffering out at sea by himself. To the Anglo-Saxon people of Britain, home meant something different from when it means for people today. This would be why the author is suffering so much because he misses home so
All three of the poems that we read from the Exeter Book specifically talk about people suffering throughout the poem. In The Seafarer, a man is lost and sea and is writing about his insane suffering and all of the things that he misses from his home village. “How the sea took me, swept me back and forth in sorrow and fear and pain, showed me suffering in a hundred ships, in a thousand ports, and in me. It tells of smashing surf when I sweated in the cold of an anxious watch, perched in the bow as it dashed under cliffs.” (Page 21, Lines 2-9) This quote shows just how bad the author of this poem is suffering out at sea by himself. To the Anglo-Saxon people of Britain, home meant something different from when it means for people today. This would be why the author is suffering so much because he misses home so