Essay Comparing The Seafarer And The Wife's Lament
Seafarer and The Wife’s Lament
Exile
When you are forced out of your own life, put in exile, banished; loneliness can take over your very being. The poems The Seafarer and The Wife’s Lament is encoded with a mournful and forlorn mood. All the way through these poems immense passion is expressed about the exile of individuals. They show the battle of how being sentenced to destitute can change your view on life, and makes you value the little things, which is something worth learning for any one. In each poem, there is loneliness along with the hardships, a wife, and a sailor face; and how they make the best of their everlasting fate. The Wife’s Lament projects the lonesomeness of a woman who was exiled from society, by her husband …show more content…
(lines14-17).” This quote illustrates the feeling of desperation and sadness the wife feels. Even though she is in great despair, she slowly starts to turn the situation around and take her new found destiny with grace and composure. Although she is upset she is poised in a situation full of sorrow. The Seafarer tells the tale of an old sailor bound to a life at sea, and his longing for land as he ventures on. After is lord passes on, he is forced to go on in exile in search of a new lord to serve. The sailors struggle is emphasized in a multitude of ways especially when it comes to how he longs for warmth and faces hunger. “My feet –fettered by cold, as with chains – were frost-ringed. Sorrow groaned hot round my heart, hunger tore from bowels, spirit stifled by sea-weariness (lines8-14).” This excerpt shows of the harsh conditions the sailor faced and the pain he suffered through while on this voyage. With the pain he faced because of his exile, we also learn of a happiness he finds in it. He would much rather a life on sea then on land, on a plethora of lines he says how his heart longs for the sea; so his exile to there is not all gruesome for him. He enjoys the see, even though he does miss his life on land; the sea is where is heart
Exile
When you are forced out of your own life, put in exile, banished; loneliness can take over your very being. The poems The Seafarer and The Wife’s Lament is encoded with a mournful and forlorn mood. All the way through these poems immense passion is expressed about the exile of individuals. They show the battle of how being sentenced to destitute can change your view on life, and makes you value the little things, which is something worth learning for any one. In each poem, there is loneliness along with the hardships, a wife, and a sailor face; and how they make the best of their everlasting fate. The Wife’s Lament projects the lonesomeness of a woman who was exiled from society, by her husband …show more content…
(lines14-17).” This quote illustrates the feeling of desperation and sadness the wife feels. Even though she is in great despair, she slowly starts to turn the situation around and take her new found destiny with grace and composure. Although she is upset she is poised in a situation full of sorrow. The Seafarer tells the tale of an old sailor bound to a life at sea, and his longing for land as he ventures on. After is lord passes on, he is forced to go on in exile in search of a new lord to serve. The sailors struggle is emphasized in a multitude of ways especially when it comes to how he longs for warmth and faces hunger. “My feet –fettered by cold, as with chains – were frost-ringed. Sorrow groaned hot round my heart, hunger tore from bowels, spirit stifled by sea-weariness (lines8-14).” This excerpt shows of the harsh conditions the sailor faced and the pain he suffered through while on this voyage. With the pain he faced because of his exile, we also learn of a happiness he finds in it. He would much rather a life on sea then on land, on a plethora of lines he says how his heart longs for the sea; so his exile to there is not all gruesome for him. He enjoys the see, even though he does miss his life on land; the sea is where is heart