The Wife's Lament

How would you feel if the one you loved were to take you away from your family and friends just to abandon you with people who don’t love or even like you? The poem The Wife’s Lament was found in the Exeter Book a book from the Anglo-Saxon time period. The poet portrays the speaker as a wife of a man who seemingly travels around the world and has brought his wife to live with him and his family. Soon after her arrival her husband left her behind, She thinks of her friends how they live beloved by the people around them then here she is walking alone dawning over her exile under the oak tree of which she lived under. In the poem “The Wife’s Lament” the main character is battling loneliness and most likely depression that has built on this loneliness. she was removed from her loved ones then left behind to be surrounded by ones who despise her. She felt lost, even in her own home. She was in love with a man who left her behind, unforgotten but left
The poem helps show one woman's story of her sad love life. The author does a good way of showing this by telling us the feelings from even her husband's family members and how she felt everyone was against her, and she explained that she was removed from her friends, family and loved ones. Even when she thought she was making the right decision to move with her husband and his family, she soon found out more and more about abandonment, after he left her. The husband being seemingly unaware of the fact that his family isn't quite fond of his wife, or simply the fact that he is married to an exile. Throughout this entire poem she isn't happy she explains her sadness and loneliness in strong visual language. (Lines 11-12) “My man’s kinsmen began to plot by darkened thought to divide us two.” This shows how the husband’s family is against their marriage but she still is in love despite their problems, despite her