Lament

The story The Wife’s Lament is a gender change to woman narrator. The story of the woman is about being left by her husband. He no longer wants to be with her and kicks her out of their place. The woman’s husband never was around much anyway, for he was always sailing on the…

Languishly Waiting for a Loved One: A Perspective on the Denial of Subjectivity, Instrumentality, and Inertness in The Wife’s Lament “Woe unto him who languishing waits for a loved one.” This gonic wisdom attached to the end of “The Wife’s Lament,” an anglo-saxon poem, resonates with the suffrage one woman must face alone after being discarded from an early form of a patriarchal society. While much of the context behind the poem remains a mystery, four things are certain. The speaker is a woman…

family members for the first time in years. This is particularly problematic for his wife, Bimba, who never recovered from her husband abandoning her, constantly became depressed or furious with her circumstance within the primary document of “Bimba’s Lament.” This document focuses on the suffering of Bimba, and how that suffering relates to the ultimate goal of enlightenment, while also showcasing the contrasting…

collection of different writings by different authors, like our literature book (hymnal as Mr. McGee calls it). This is the Anglo-Saxon Anthology of poetry. There are three poems in this Exeter book, consisting of The Seafarer, The Wanderer, and The Wife’s Lament. These poems are dramatic monologues, which means there is only one speaker and he/she is talking to someone. Interesting fact, in Anglo-Saxon time period women didn’t have any power, but in this Exeter book one of the poems has a…

I had only been a College professor for three years when Gregory Levey’s controversial and much-discussed magazine piece “Lament for the iGeneration” was published in 2009. I interpreted it as a cautionary tale: if we’re in the hands of the next generation, we’re really screwed. Levey, a Ryerson communications professor, basically argued he’s pretty sure education has tanked; the iGeneration (those born in the 1990s) can’t handle post-secondary learning; and that the gap between the schools and…

1. Chief Dan George read the speech “Lament for Confederation” to 32,000 people at Empire Stadium. Dan George, Chief to a Coast Salish band in North Vancouver and activist on the rights of First Nations in North America was a residential school student at the age five. He was stripped of his language, culture and family. The speech discussed the devastating ways in which the European settlers stole the native territory and culture. I think Chief George’s speech highlights how the Europeans…

In Renee Wilson’s article, “The Defense of the iGeneration”, (2013) she argues against Professor Gregory Levey views from his article “Lament for the iGeneration.” Wilson discusses in her article that the iGeneration is one of the smartest generations and the world is in good hands. To begin, Wilson explores the opposing views of Levey, which suggest that advancements in technology have made the iGeneration less social, emotional and more robotic. Wilson refutes Levey’s statements and she first…

Therefore, “The iGeneration” refers to a generation of young people who grew up with a high exposure to technology, likely through an “iPhone.” Renee Wilson was working as a teacher in 2009 when she read the provocative article by Gregory Levy entitled, “Lament for the iGeneration.” This was the hotly debated magazine piece in which Levy insisted that the students of the iGeneration, those born later than 1995, were without the skills necessary for a post-secondary education because of their…

chapters give more of a description of the leading up to Judith’s story. In it we learn more about the war that is being raged. But as Brookbanks points out in her article “The Participation of Women in the Anglo-Saxon World: Judith and The Wife 's Lament” that our poet seems to constantly foreshadowing the win yet never really gives all that much of a background as to why it is what it is (Brookbanks). This is important because we know more in terms of the world around and more so why Judith is…

I rate this book 3 out of 4 stars. The Immigrant’s Lament by Mois Benarroch is a poetry collection released by Moben Publishing. Included in this collection are several short poems—one or two pages long—such as “The Transsexual’s Lament.” These short poems are framed by two longer works: the title poem, “The Immigrant’s Lament,” and “Self portrait of the poet in a family mirror.” Benarroch’s poetry runs commentary on a few core topics, namely love, writing, a sense of belonging, generational…