Abandonment
Picture the worst pain you 've ever felt in your life. It can be anything as simple as being dumped at the homecoming dance by that tenth grade boy that you swore you were going to “marry” to as complex as breaking multiple bones in some freak accident.You would think that would be every cultures definition of torment. Hello! Even our own dictionary states that “pain is the physical suffering or discomfort caused by illness or injury”. However it seems that we couldn 't be more wrong when comparing it to Anglo-Saxon culture. Pain within Anglo-Saxon culture was not being run through by a sword, burned to death by a dragon, eaten by hell spawned monsters, or being forced to write a five to seven page paper over an ancient dusty …show more content…
Now this isn 't your average pineapple under the sea nor is it four amazing movies about pirates in the caribbean with legendary stars such as Johnny Depp or Orlando Bloom. However The Seafarer tells the story of a man condemned to a life at sea abandoned by his lord and everyone who isn 't a sailor yet his duty and love for the sea keeps him sailing. This piece of poetry is a true test of abandonment, the evidence is clear right from the get go by stating “the sea took me swept me back and and fourth in sorrow and fear and pain, showed me suffering in a hundred ships, in a thousand ports,and in me.”(2-5) He is showing how much he has suffered on his own from the very start of the paper. He is making his pain blatantly obvious and continues to do so by stating “no kinsman could offer me comfort, to a soul left drowning in desolation.”(25-26) Stating this shows that he is alone on his own and cannot be helped, that the world is too busy for him. “The passion of cities, swelling proud with wine, and taste no misfortune, how often, how wearily, I put myself back on the path of the sea.”(28-30) This man is telling the tale of how his lord and kin left him alone in the world, how he had no choice but to exile himself to the sea and abandon all that he had known for a cruel life at …show more content…
Whose only goal in life was to be rich and famous among the Geats as well as the Danes. The story of Beowulf entails a man with superhuman abilities who is on a mission to become famous as he slays a hell spawned monster named Grendel as well as Grendel 's mother reaching his goal of fame and eventually becoming a lord himself until finally meeting his demise many years later fighting a dragon. The first example of abandonment we see within this piece is the battle between Grendel and Beowulf. “Grendel snatched the first Geat he came to and ripped him apart, cut his body to bits with his powerful jaws, Drank the blood from his veins and bolted him down, hands and feet; death and Grendel 's great teeth came together, snapping life shut.” Beowulf was lying two feet away from the man being eaten awake and let it happen. He abandoned one of his men to die in thought that it would slightly slow Grendel down. Seriously though how freaking terrible is that! The second example of abandonment within this story is whenever Beowulf does not rise from the water and it takes hours for him to get to Grendel 's mother 's lair.”The sun slid down over past noon, went further down. The Danes gave up, left the lake and went home, Hrothgar with them. The Geats stayed, sat sadly, watching, imagining they saw their lord but not believing they would ever see him again.” The Danes abandoned Beowulf like he was nothing
Picture the worst pain you 've ever felt in your life. It can be anything as simple as being dumped at the homecoming dance by that tenth grade boy that you swore you were going to “marry” to as complex as breaking multiple bones in some freak accident.You would think that would be every cultures definition of torment. Hello! Even our own dictionary states that “pain is the physical suffering or discomfort caused by illness or injury”. However it seems that we couldn 't be more wrong when comparing it to Anglo-Saxon culture. Pain within Anglo-Saxon culture was not being run through by a sword, burned to death by a dragon, eaten by hell spawned monsters, or being forced to write a five to seven page paper over an ancient dusty …show more content…
Now this isn 't your average pineapple under the sea nor is it four amazing movies about pirates in the caribbean with legendary stars such as Johnny Depp or Orlando Bloom. However The Seafarer tells the story of a man condemned to a life at sea abandoned by his lord and everyone who isn 't a sailor yet his duty and love for the sea keeps him sailing. This piece of poetry is a true test of abandonment, the evidence is clear right from the get go by stating “the sea took me swept me back and and fourth in sorrow and fear and pain, showed me suffering in a hundred ships, in a thousand ports,and in me.”(2-5) He is showing how much he has suffered on his own from the very start of the paper. He is making his pain blatantly obvious and continues to do so by stating “no kinsman could offer me comfort, to a soul left drowning in desolation.”(25-26) Stating this shows that he is alone on his own and cannot be helped, that the world is too busy for him. “The passion of cities, swelling proud with wine, and taste no misfortune, how often, how wearily, I put myself back on the path of the sea.”(28-30) This man is telling the tale of how his lord and kin left him alone in the world, how he had no choice but to exile himself to the sea and abandon all that he had known for a cruel life at …show more content…
Whose only goal in life was to be rich and famous among the Geats as well as the Danes. The story of Beowulf entails a man with superhuman abilities who is on a mission to become famous as he slays a hell spawned monster named Grendel as well as Grendel 's mother reaching his goal of fame and eventually becoming a lord himself until finally meeting his demise many years later fighting a dragon. The first example of abandonment we see within this piece is the battle between Grendel and Beowulf. “Grendel snatched the first Geat he came to and ripped him apart, cut his body to bits with his powerful jaws, Drank the blood from his veins and bolted him down, hands and feet; death and Grendel 's great teeth came together, snapping life shut.” Beowulf was lying two feet away from the man being eaten awake and let it happen. He abandoned one of his men to die in thought that it would slightly slow Grendel down. Seriously though how freaking terrible is that! The second example of abandonment within this story is whenever Beowulf does not rise from the water and it takes hours for him to get to Grendel 's mother 's lair.”The sun slid down over past noon, went further down. The Danes gave up, left the lake and went home, Hrothgar with them. The Geats stayed, sat sadly, watching, imagining they saw their lord but not believing they would ever see him again.” The Danes abandoned Beowulf like he was nothing