The Wife's Lament

Does real love exist? Does everyone have a real soul mate? Do you and your soul mate really stay together forever? If you answered ‘yes’ to any of these questions then you’re in the same confused state as the wife when her husband abandons her. “The Wife’s Lament” by an anonymous writer has the theme of sorrow, love, heartbreak and journey. The poem tells us about the journey and the emotions of a wife searching for her husband to tell him the truth. Although she doesn’t find him, she begins to agonize with the fact that she’ll never find him and be able to tell him the truth. The first section of this saddening poem is a back story of their relationship. The reader says that her journey is the “fate of her voyage” (2). The word fate isn’t
She is still saying that “despite” (44) everything going on and her not being able to fine him, she’s still trying, She begins to get more upset and says that he is a “far-flung outlaw” (46). When she says that, it catches your attention because in Anglo-Saxon times and traditions, women never went after a man that left them. They just left it alone; however with the wife it’s almost like she’s obsessed with him and having him love her the way she loves him. In the fifth section, the wife begins to come the miserable conclusion and reality that she is never going to find her king. Her hopes and dreams of them being together become a “dreary” (50) perception of how her life is going to be without him. In all honesty, she is “unhappy” (53) without him but yet she is unhappy with the journey of having to find him. There is no denying that she is beginning to mourn over her husband disappearance and her aimless journey to nowhere. If you answered yes to any of those questions I asked you before, did reading about what a women in Anglo-Saxon times change your outlook on love? Or even life in general? After reading this, personally as a girl, it is moving and should changed how you look at