Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C.

Relationships can be like a pack of wolves. There is an alpha and an omega, always a type of power structure. Jane Kenyon explores about this in her poem with the different roles the male and female take within in their relationship. She reveals how a power shift come about and the way in which each person in the relationship acts to accommodate it. “Surprise” In her poem “Surprise”, Jane Kenyon uses yonic and phallic symbols, regression, and the double to reveal the power dynamics within the relationship. Kenyon uses yonic and phallic symbols to describe how something is changing in the relationship. Kenyon uses a female symbol when she writes, “Tender ferns unfurl/ in the ditches” (Kenyon 6-4) The ditch represents a yonic symbol. The yonic symbol is female imagery so it must indicate something about the woman in the relationship. Kenyon describes the ferns that uncurling, and expanding as tender so this could indicate a new side to the woman. A softer side that she really has not showed to anyone. This part of her was maybe just under the surface and now as the “ferns unfurl” this new, not submissive side of her is being discovered. On the other hand, Kenyon also uses phallic symbols. She writes using phallic symbols when she says, “Budding leaves/ push past last year’s spectral leaves from the tips/ of the twigs” (Kenyon 7-9) The twigs indicate male imagery and, therefore, this line could be about the man in the relationship. Just like the female this could be about a…

Even some of the qualities ascribed to a wise warrior are given to love: “Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up” (1 Cor 13:4). Patience is attributed to both charity and a wise warrior, as not puffing up oneself is comparable to refraining from a boast. Furthermore, the lamenting style of both “Beowulf” and “The Wanderer” is reminiscent of the writings in some of the Psalms and Proverbs, as well as the book of Ecclesiastes. The…

Achieving Self-knowledge from Quests Norton Juster, an American academic, architect, and popular writer, contemplates that “the most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between, and they took great pleasure in doing just that.” (Norton Juster) He says this to describe the quests that individuals have to overcome almost every day for one or another reason. Examples of quest stories are Huck Finn, The Lord of the Rings, North by Northwest, and Star Wars. Quest…

The Wander is an Elegy-style poem that depicts the suffering, exile, and memoirs of an anonymous narrator who refers to himself differently according to what part of his life he is sharing; a "Lone-dweller", an "Earth-stepper", ect. Although it is commonly believed that there is only one narrator, there is still a lot of debate on whether or not there was only one narrator throughout the poem or if there were several. The Wanderer is believed to have been created around the 5th or 6th…

Anglo-Saxon literature was centered around one common theme, exile. The exile in literature is often about the banning of a person from a place. Most writers in this time period wrote an elegy for the things they miss from their time before their exiled. Some writers were forced into exile by others for political reasons while others fled for their own safety. As seen in “The Seafarer”, “The Wanderer”, and “The Wife’s Lament” exile was a major anxiety in Anglo-Saxon literature as the threat…

In both “The Wanderer” and “The Seafarer”, the idea of one day achieving heaven soothes the feeling of loneliness in the physical world with one of comfort. The subjects’ description of setting and the expression of his thoughts in both “The Wanderer” and “The Seafarer” hints that the subject feels lonely in the physical world. In “The Wanderer”, the Wanderer uses his setting to convey this mood, describing his surroundings as, “grey stretches of tossing sea” and “hail storms darken and driving…

For college freshman, seeing their entire lives packed away into the back of one car can leave a bittersweet in their mouths. The excitement of being on their own for the first time overpowers the crippling anxiety that comes with the experience of actually being alone. The adjustments of a new town, new people, and a new way of life for the average incoming freshman at the University of Louisiana at Monroe (ULM) are nothing compared to the adjustments international students make when coming…

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…

“Not all those who wander are lost,” a line from the poem All That Glitters Is Not Gold by J. R. R Tolkien tells how even if you are on a journey and you don’t know quite where your destination is, it can be worth the while. In this unit, we learned about multiple journeys that can convey how the journey is important to gain life long experiences and build upon courage in order to set off on your own. On this journey, we can see some heroes, a hero can be defined as someone who even in the…

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 female speaker. With that said, that is one thing which makes the Exeter book…