Similarities Between The Seafarer And The Wife's Lament

Home can be a different place for everyone. Some people feel most at home when they are by themselves. Others believe that they belong with their families and friends to feel most at home. Home is where you feel like you belong. It is a state of mind where we feel comfortable and never want to leave. We all belong to someplace, but we leave that place or get dislocated we often become very sad. When we lose the place where we belong it hurts our heart. We feel it in our soul because of how strongly we felt when we were at home. From the three passages of the Exeter Book, The Seafarer, The Wanderer, and The Wife’s Lament, there are three specific messages about dislocation and being away from your home. To start off, in The Seafarer, the narrator tells us that we should think of our home when in misery. It is always good when we get upset to find something that makes us happy. When we are dislocated the thought of what home is like can put a good feeling in our head. It can help us to get through tough times. When we think of home we can look …show more content…
When we move it is very hard on us because we think of everything that we are leaving behind. When things change it saddens us because we enjoy life the way it was. Friends and family can make any place feel like home, but when we move away from our friends and family we can become very sorrowful. It is always hard to leave people that we love behind and move to a new and strange place. The girl in The Wife’s Lament said, “I had few loved ones in this land or faithful friends. For this my heart grieves…” (Lines 16-17) She is miserable at her new home because it is not the home she loves. She believe that the new place is not her home because she feels the people around her make a place feel like a home. She heartbroken at the fact that her new home is away from her loved