The Wanderer

counterculture movements we see throughout history as the rejection of the normal first started by the Romantics. We see Romanticism at work in poetry such as William Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads and Other Poems, in art such as Caspar David Friedrich 's Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog, and in modern day equivalents such as Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here. Romanticism is quite noticeable in many writings during the late…

Kinship Bravery, Loyalty, Friendship The true values of Anglo-Saxon culture as found in Beowulf in The Wanderer The Anglo-Saxons were a rich and diverse culture. While it is true they were a warlike culture, they were a lot more than that. Warrior-like-ness was just an attribute of their culture. Two of the most well-known pieces of Anglo-Saxon literature, Beowulf and the Wanderer give a better understanding of this culture we know so little about. This paper will reveal the three…

word and do not complain, no matter how impossible their tasks seem. In Anglo-Saxon culture, being a hero meant being brave on the battlefield, being loyal to one’s lord, not harming family members, and seeking fame, as evidenced by Beowulf and “The Wanderer.” Interestingly, in Anglo-Saxon culture, there was nothing shameful about a warrior wanting glory, wanting to be known as a hero. Today, we often see people on the news who have done heroic acts say, “I did what anyone would do.” Sometimes…

The mead hall was an essential part of Anglo-Saxon culture. Kin groups would meet there to celebrate and feast with one another, but it was also a symbol of fierce loyalty and deep bonds of kinship. These ties of loyalty ruled their culture and affect literally everything that did—men would literally die while honoring their ties and promises of loyalty to their lords. So, back to the mead hall, these were places to celebrate those deep bonds. Even though men wanted to leave to seek honor…

use of nature to explain certain feelings and actions strategically allows an acceptance of hardships in life. Many poems have been written using nature as a backbone of faith. Poems such as “The Story of Caedmon”, “The Dream of the Rood” and “The Wanderer” are examples of the relationship of nature and the Lord. Religion was a crucial part of life during the Old English period. The Lord himself was expressed through nature, and many natural occurrences. These expressions helped explain the way…

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…

This becomes evident in “The Wanderer.” In “The Wanderer” a solitary man states that he would not dare open up to anyone, he would guard his thoughts, secure his mind, and think as he wishes. His reasoning is that “a sorrowful mind doesn’t do any good” (“Wanderer” 15-36). “The Rune Poems” displayed a Christian belief that it is everyone’s obligation to give to the poor because wealth was another…

Rome. In the Anglo-Saxon culture, Christianity was the main religion that people would follow, with this being shown in many works of literature from it. Christianity is influential on Anglo-Saxon literature in works such as “The Seafarer”, “The Wanderer”, and Beowulf. “The Seafarer” is an Old English poem that was written in the Anglo-Saxon era by an unknown author. The poem is shown to have Christian elements in the last half of the poem. The author writes at the end of the poem, which was…

the Wanderer and Beowulf and how they were heavily influenced by the Anglo-Saxons. In conclusion, I will discuss how Beowulf is still relevant today. Beowulf is the longest epic poem in Old English, which was the language spoken in Anglo-Saxon…

Quanah Parker (Comanche kwana "smell, odor") (c. 1845 or 1852 – February 23, 1911) was a Comanche/English-American from the Comanche band Quahadi ("Antelope-eaters"). Strictly related also to the Nokoni band ("Wanderers" or "Travellers") (his mother's people), he emerged as a dominant figure of the Comanche, particularly after the Comanches' final defeat. He was one of the last Comanche chiefs. The U.S. appointed Quanah principal chief of the entire nation once the people had gathered on the…