The Seafarer

The seafarer is an old Anglo Saxon poem. This poem is told through the perspective of a man who is constantly traveling. The speaker seems to be in despair whenever he travels because he’d rather find a place for himself. He then goes on tangent about Fate and Faith. The tone of this poem is somber. His imagery is used to express his loneliness. For example, he foretells his experience by, “How the sea took me, swept me back, and forth in sorrow and fear and pain, showed me suffering in a…

permeate Old English Poetry in relation riddles and elegies. Riddles and the elegy The Seafarer from the Exeter Book will be referenced. The themes and literary devices of riddles that focus on transformation that will be discussed are de-conceptualisation, metaphors and imagery. Within elegies the themes that focus on transformation in relation to The Seafarer that will be discussed are the transformation of the Seafarer and the spiritual transformation of the Christian soul.…

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…

ETHNICITY AND IDENTITY OF FILIPINO SEAFARERS Members Dela Torre, Roger Kenneth Tanjuaquio, John Patrick Posmasdero, John Louie Bales, Joshua Louie Materiales, Paulo Submitted to: Prof. Gerson Tuazon SS021-A45 Introduction: The Filipino Seafarer Labor Force The Philippines is the one who supplies more than one-fourth of competitive and globalized labor for seafarers. The employment contract combines the rules and regulation of the Philippine Overseas…

isolation. “The Seafarer” “The Wanderer” and “The Wife’s Lament” all have a gloomy mood. In each, the speaker mourns…

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…

As seen in “The Seafarer”, “The Wanderer”, and “The Wife’s Lament” exile was a major anxiety in Anglo-Saxon literature as the threat could come from anywhere at anytime. The poem “The Seafarer” is about a man who has spent most of his life on the sea, as he starts his elegy by writing how the sea took him away. Within the first few lines, the Seafarer wrote about his suffering on hundreds of ships in thousands of ports as he was bound in frost. As the lines go on, the Seafarer tells of…

The “wild swan’s song / sometimes served as music” from line 19 of “The Seafarer” is a metaphor for the scop, or storyteller, in Anglo-Saxon communities. This line indicates the importance of community because it shows the speaker trying to recreate the social aspects of community in his sea-bound exile. The use of the swan as a scop undermines the speaker’s community in exile in nature and leads the speaker to conclude that the only community left for him is in heaven. The “swan’s song” is…

In the poem, The Seafarer and in the epic poem, Beowulf, there is one crucial and outstanding tone that represents the mourning and death of a person, which is called an elegy. Both, Beowulf and The Seafarer are Anglo-Saxon poems, where a significant mood seems to be elegiac. In The Seafarer, he begins the poem by explaining his many adventures and how the times that he was at sea were difficult, but through perseverance he was able to overcome them. Similar to Beowulf, the epic hero who faced…

related literatures that are used in this research on the stress level among seafarers in the shipping company. In this chapter, researcher will also discuss about what is stress, seafarers and their job description, type of stress, factors influencing seafarers stress, effects of stress and relationship between stress and job performance. In the seafarers’ world, the burden physically and mentally aspect faced by seafarers can be considered as serious. There are many potential stressors that…