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The thought of being exiled from the place that is so familiar, can make a person distraught. Edward Said wrote that, “Exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience. It is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and a native place, between the self and its true home: its essential sadness can never be surmounted.” Said also thought that exile can become, “a potent, even enriching,” experience. The exile of Victor Frankenstein’s creation in Mary Shelley’s…

These Anglo Saxons poems share many common points. They both tell the protagonists story about being exiled from their society. This was a popular topic in Anglo Saxon time because many had lords who could kick them out at any time without a reason, and the person being exiled could not do anything about it. During the protagonists exile, they experience hard times and emotional pain. The most noticeable similarity is that in both stories, the narrator is exiled from the society. However, they…

Thi Nguyen Dr. Jillian Round 2382.001 9 October 2015 Wanderer above the Sea of Fog In 1818, Caspar David Friedrich creates the piece “Wanderer above the Sea of Fog” which tells a story, using oil on canvas about a man dressed in dark clothing overlooking a vast body of fog with his back turned towards the viewer. The main subject is a man in a dark green coat leaning on a cane and a rock with bright orange red hair. He’s standing upon a mountain comprised of dark browns and blacks. In the…

Analysis of "The Seafarer" "The Seafarer", by an anonymous Anglo-Saxon scop, focuses on the themes of depression and passion. This elegy, which is a song of misery reveals the sorrow, pain, and loneliness the speaker feels while at sea. Though the speaker feels these emotions, he is passionate about what he is doing, and will continue his journey. Interpolations also occur through the end of the story which causes the speaker to change how he views his exile. In the first section, the speaker…

Anglo-Saxons took exile seriously; the threat of exile alone caused much anxiety among the individuals of that society. To be exiled means to be kicked out, or banished from one’s homeland, which would result in having no companionship. Because exile is something the Anglo-Saxons took very seriously, one had to commit a crime in order to be exiled. If one were to commit a crime Anglo-Saxons would resort to execution, unless the crime was not serious enough. If the crime was not serious…

“Dover Beach”: In his “Dover Beach,” Matthew Arnold employs images related to the ocean to establish a theme relating to the cyclical nature of human life. Specifically, he refers to the continuation of misery throughout an individual’s life. This allusion to cycles is supported throughout the poem through the use of tidal imagery. For example, he refers to the French coast and how “the light gleams and is gone” (3-4) This is significant as light often works as a symbol of hope. Therefore, this…

1. In the poem “The Seafarer”, the Seafarer ends the poem with the word “Amen” which suggests that this poem is prayer. The Seafarer ultimately prays for a life in which he would end up in heaven. The Seafarer had gone through many obstacles that have affected his life physically and mentally. For example, the Seafarer engrosses in an obstacle in which he journeys across a winter landscape and entitles himself to psychological land of anguish and torment. However, as the poem continues, the…

The Wanderer and The Seafarer coincide through their spiritual and emotional longings to escape the changing society and exile themselves to the sea. During the Anglo­Saxon time period commoners of this dreary and gruesome time were often surprised with viking raids and the threat of a rapidly changing pagan society. In both poems The Wanderer and The Seafarer we are introduced to the idea of two humble individuals setting themselves apart from their own society and exiling themselves to…

Poems which express feelings of mourning and lament are known as elegies. In these poems, the speaker usually speaks of all they have lost. The poem “The Wife’s Lament” is an elegiac poem because of the character’s circumstance and the tone of the poem. The wife’s painful circumstances in “The Wife’s Lament” is a trait found within all elegiac poems. Towards the very beginning of the poem, the wife starts telling the story of why she is now in exile alone. It appears that she was peace-weaver…

In senior english we study many poems, novels, and other forms of literature.Recently we have been studying an anthology from the Anglo Saxon time period.This collection of poems is an interesting one. There is a several messages from each poem. These three poems are The Seafarer, The Wanderer, and the Wife’s Lament. These messages are life changing. They make you think and give a whole new view of life. The first poem is The Seafarer, this poem is an interesting one. This viking the seafarer…