The Wanderer

"Don't try to change your past...it's the only truth you've got" (Okhuozagbon). The past can be an interesting thing - then again, so can the future. This suggests the painting, Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog by Caspar David Friedrich. In the painting, a lone man standing on a crag of rocks overlooking the sea. His left foot faces the sea and is higher than his right. His slender cane sits on a third point on the rocks. His blonde hair is flopping in the sea breeze, but his long, green, pleated at

Most scholars think "The Wanderer" first appeared as a piece of oral poetry during the 5th or 6th century, a time when the Germanic Pagan culture of Anglo-Saxon England was undergoing a conversion to Christianity. It contains traces of both traditional Germanic warrior culture and of a Christian value system. The speaker for much of the poem is a warrior who has had to go into exile after the slaughter of his lord and relatives in battle. Now, he contemplates what the experience of the exile teaches

Both Beowulf and The Wanderer share this tragic quality and sense of impending doom. In The Wanderer, this aura and feeling is spelled out throughout the whole text. One of the lines that show this is found in the very beginning, which is, “No one remains alive to whom I could utter the thoughts in my heart, tell him my sorrows.” This is followed up by another tragic line that goes, “One acquainted with pain understands how cruel a traveling companion sorrow is for someone with few friends at his

both The Wanderer and “To Penshurst.” Do descriptions of the past have similar qualities and effects in these two works? Why or why not? In answering this question, you will need to consider carefully how each author invokes the past and why the past is important in each of these texts. P grace more idyllic nature cause synecdoche is pastoral but W is an elegy temporalities hide loneliness bWHAT THEY DONT HAVE Answer #1 - The Wandered versus To Penshurst: When comparing The Wanderer and “To Penshurst

Georgia Miranda Mr. Jaycox Sr. Literature- hour 1 23 August, 2017 “The Wanderer” In-Class Essay: Prompt 2 “Each day holds a surprise. But only if we expect it can we see, hear, or feel it when it comes to us. Let's not be afraid to receive each day's surprise, whether it comes to us as sorrow or as joy It will open a new place in our hearts” (Henri Nouwen). The quote is claiming fate is destined to happen, and whether fate comes as “good fate” or “bad fate”, one must embrace it, and find the beauty

The poem, "The Wanderer" and "The Boulevard Of Broken Dreams" can be compared because they're closely similar. each of the songs form a mood of being alone in one place. Even though they're set during a totally different life they each provide the thought of a human’s feelings of being alone in an abandoned place, The Wanderer goes on to recall the hardships he has featured in his life, like observing his kinsmen ruined and even slaughtered. He is aware of that whereas he's lonely and isolated

out even the most glorious of human achievements.” He means that one person’s accomplishments and material rewards will eventually be forgotten over time and thus mean nothing. This concept of time as an eraser can be seen in both Beowulf and “The Wanderer” where the past is diminished into a shadow of what it once was before eventually being forgotten. In Beowulf, there are many instances where the poet will convey how ephemeral a man’s achievements in life can be after he is taken by death. Beowulf

The Wanderer and The Wife's Lament Journal In this week, the document that I read is The Wanderer and The Wife's Lament. While reading this document, I was surprised by the husband’s action that he abandoned his wife in his heartache. The reason that the woman and her husband married was to make peace instead of love; however, they still loved each other after marrying and swore that nothing could separate them excepted the death (Anonymous 114). For me, the husband abandoned his wife because of

The painting Wanderer above the Sea of Fog was painted by a German artist named Caspar David Freidrich. It was painted in 1818 in Kunsthalle Hamburg, Germany. I speculate that Friedrich’s purpose could have been to portray how he felt, he could have possibly been as lonely as the man in the picture. Wanderer above the Sea of Fog is a painting of a man in a German green overcoat standing over a ridge as he is holding onto a walking stick. He is gazing over the horizon and the landscape as the

Performance Analysis: Fantasy in C Major, Op. 15 (D. 760) (“Wanderer” Fantasy) Schubert composed the Fantasy in C Major (“Wanderer” Fantasy) in 1822. This fantasy became a milestone in music history because it was the first time when a composer “integrated a four-movement sonata into a single movement.” Schubert did so by matching the sequence of a traditional four-movement sonata (Allegro, Adagio, Scherzo, Finale) to one big sonata form (exposition, development, recapitulation, coda). This exploration