Do you know why we fall in love? It is a crucial aspect of being human. We long for it, our hearts desire it. It’s a magical experience, it’s the tingle in your toes and the times you catch yourself thinking about that one person. It brings us happiness. But for some it doesn’t always work out that way. The “The Wife`s Lament” is an elegy from the Exeter book that tells the story of a women that had her heart broken from being in love.
“The Wife`s Lament”, by an anonymous Anglo-Saxton scop focuses on the theme of abandonment and loneliness. In the elegy the speakers words show helplessness, pain, and hopelessness form a woman that has been left by her husband. She is a desperate wife suffering from the pain of her husband’s disappearance and …show more content…
Her “sorrow” (1) has put her in a “dark” (7) place that she wants to relinquish herself from. She is experiencing “pain” (5) and “torment” (5) that any wife would experience if their on true love walked away what she thought would last an eternity. She feel that it her “fate” (2) to set out on a voyage to regain her lover back. Fate was a big deal to the Anglo-Saxton. They felt that fate was the reason for why events happened the way they did and in the end there was a reason for it all. The wife cannot resist the urge to look for her husband. She has this feeling deep down that she is obligated to do so and so she …show more content…
Not only is her husband missing but she only has “few loved ones” (16). She is an outsider to everyone around her. She left everything behind in her old country to be with her husband. She and her husband were so much more than just lovers, they had this “friendship” (25), this unbreakable bond, so she thought. She feels that empty space with him being gone, she wants that missing piece of the puzzle to be back into place. The speaker ends up being took captive and put in a “hovel” (28) by the kinsman. It was common in the Anglo-Saxton era to be exiled if you didn’t obey there laws and code of honor. “The Wife`s Lament” is actually an allegory. The wife represents the church and she is lamenting her exile from Jesus Christ. The wife`s description of the underground cell signifies she is speaking from the grave. She rebelled against society to get back what she is longing for. The wife states that the only thing that keeps her motivated to get out of the “joyless” (32) stronghold is her husband and she will not give up till she “seizes” (32) that. The fourth section the speaker discusses her philosophical views on the situation. She says that you should never listen to what people say. You are your own person and if you feel that it is your fate then chase it. Never let society tell you who to be, you are your own person. Never let society win. Last but not least in section
“The Wife`s Lament”, by an anonymous Anglo-Saxton scop focuses on the theme of abandonment and loneliness. In the elegy the speakers words show helplessness, pain, and hopelessness form a woman that has been left by her husband. She is a desperate wife suffering from the pain of her husband’s disappearance and …show more content…
Her “sorrow” (1) has put her in a “dark” (7) place that she wants to relinquish herself from. She is experiencing “pain” (5) and “torment” (5) that any wife would experience if their on true love walked away what she thought would last an eternity. She feel that it her “fate” (2) to set out on a voyage to regain her lover back. Fate was a big deal to the Anglo-Saxton. They felt that fate was the reason for why events happened the way they did and in the end there was a reason for it all. The wife cannot resist the urge to look for her husband. She has this feeling deep down that she is obligated to do so and so she …show more content…
Not only is her husband missing but she only has “few loved ones” (16). She is an outsider to everyone around her. She left everything behind in her old country to be with her husband. She and her husband were so much more than just lovers, they had this “friendship” (25), this unbreakable bond, so she thought. She feels that empty space with him being gone, she wants that missing piece of the puzzle to be back into place. The speaker ends up being took captive and put in a “hovel” (28) by the kinsman. It was common in the Anglo-Saxton era to be exiled if you didn’t obey there laws and code of honor. “The Wife`s Lament” is actually an allegory. The wife represents the church and she is lamenting her exile from Jesus Christ. The wife`s description of the underground cell signifies she is speaking from the grave. She rebelled against society to get back what she is longing for. The wife states that the only thing that keeps her motivated to get out of the “joyless” (32) stronghold is her husband and she will not give up till she “seizes” (32) that. The fourth section the speaker discusses her philosophical views on the situation. She says that you should never listen to what people say. You are your own person and if you feel that it is your fate then chase it. Never let society tell you who to be, you are your own person. Never let society win. Last but not least in section