The Wanderer

Response to Literature: The Wanderer 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", and the "wise man and the Warrior". Although, there is still a lot of debate on whether or not there was only one narrator throughout the poem. The Wanderer is believed to have been created around the 5th or 6th century, being

Age The poem, “The Wanderer” describes the sorrowful life of a “lonely traveler” whose kinsmen have been slaughtered and his Lord is deceased (line 1). The Wanderer is traveling a cruel journey “sharing [his] bread with sorrow alone, an exile in every land,” “friendless and poor” (lines 30-33). However, this lonely man was not physically exiled from every land for his possible wrongdoings, but he mentally exiled himself because of his old age and his regrets in life. The Wanderer proclaims that life

Before close reading, I thought that “A Wanderer above the Sea of Fog”, by Caspar David Friedrich, was about an arrogant man who treated society with contempt. The truth is very much the opposite. Those who are misunderstood by society have more insight in many things, if the man in the painting was facing us, we would not see what he sees. He would then be a “normal” member of society. Due to the contrast between the man and his surroundings, we know that he is alone in his discovery and world of

 He described his personal burdens of being on sea but he does find beauty in it.  But as in The Wanderer, a warrior is upon the ocean searching for comfort as he mourns the loss of his loved ones and society.  It is well understood that they have the feeling of loneliness in common as well as the importance in sharing a connection with God.  But there are differences as well, such as The Wanderer is repining and The Seafarer is looking back on the times he now sees as desirable.  Yet as reading

The themes of isolation and grief are deeply demonstrated in Anglo-Saxon readings. Both The Wife’s Lament and The Wanderer are great examples of how these themes are crucial in the stories. In many cases the isolation that the characters feel in these kinds of literatures may be due to exile. In The Wife’s Lament the first line of the poem is, “Full of sorrow, I shall make this song about me, my own fate”(lines 1-2). As this expresses, the character is demonstrating how full of sorrow all of her

The Wanderer In the poem, “The Wanderer”, the author portrays an elegiac tone throughout the entire poem. After reading the poem I got a sense of negativity as well as a little despair as I related it to my own personal life. As I read along, I kept getting flashbacks of my past mistakes and failures in addition to some other hardships in my life. I believe that one of the reasons the author wrote this poem was for the reader to stimulate the kind of thoughts I was having to allow us to connect

The 1933 film Oded the Wanderer, about a Hebrew boy who leaves a class field trip into a valley in modern-day Israel and wanders his way through the region, reveals to the viewer the Hebrew ideal of being one with the land. The film focuses in large part on the landscape of the valley, and of the cultivation of that land by its Hebrew inhabitants, called sabras. In contrast with a Western man who can’t seem to get out of his own way in the difficult landscape, Oded, the native, depicts a young boy

Comitatus in The Wanderer and The Dream of the Rood The Wanderer and The Dream of the Rood are two Old English poems that demonstrate the link between lord and thane. This bond, also known as the comitatus, is highlighted with imagery to effectively portray the physical intimacy involved. The idea that everything is fleeting is emphasized to show the significance of the comitatus. Furthermore, the beauty of the relationship is shown by contrasting the shame that the Wanderer feels at the end of

The Wanderer and the Wife's lament are both stories we read from the Anglo-Saxon era. They have similar stories and characters in a lot of aspects. The Wanderer is going through turmoils in his life right now because of the death of his comrades and his lord. He is in sorrow and feels lonely but doesn't want to show it because he is a dignified man. The wife is in a similar situation; her lord left and now she is in a state of sadness and grief. The wanderer goes off in search of a new lord since

Exile is commonly seen in Anglo-Saxon literature, specifically the poems: The Wanderer, The Wife’s Lament, and The Seafarer. All three poems deal with the idea of losing something and missing the something so much it pains them to think about it. Although in many cases, the person experiencing exile has nothing to do but think about their exile. In The Wanderer, the speaker has lost all of his kinsman over time. He feels exiled by his “misery, grievous disasters, and death of kin” and he is “weary