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    rhyme scheme for end line rhyme always a good place to start. there is not always end line punctuation giving it a conversational tone and seemingly being spoken to the reader. the title hints at the mournful tone baxter embodies being called elegy its about his grandfather if you didnt pick that up either.. he lived 80 years and never spoke his true feelings. gives the image that he is silent and strong and perhaps never found true love. unchanging cairn - remembered after death

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    Of the three poems The Seafarer‚ The Wanderer‚ and The Wife’s Lament‚ The Seafarer is the best poem. The Seafarer is about a man working at sea. The author describes his sadness about working at the sea in the cold. In The Seafarer the author describes his sadness about his situation makes this the best poem. I can really imagine what he describes. The purpose of the Seafarer is to tell his story about his need for money. He describes that he misses the way life used to be. His focus shifts to how

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    Alyssa James Jane Frankenfeld English 101‚ 2910‚ A 15 October 2012 Is the Message Really the Medium? In the new millennium‚ almost everything is digital. Now days‚ most people have access to the Internet and the billions of bits of information it contains. Books are now electronic and can be read on tablets and smart phones. This raises a few questions: Does this serge in electronics mean that we are no longer thinking critically of the information and merely walking the surface? Or does way

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    Changing Times Change! Stronger than titanium‚ the tides created by the moon‚ and the force of gravity that connects our universe! “The Seafarer” and “Nothing Gold Can Stay” both demonstrate that if you eliminate the glamour of our materialistic society‚ you will discover we live in a Glided Age. “The Seafarer” begins with an old sailor telling his tale of traveling the treacherous seas. He reflects on his difficult experiences‚ and he has an epiphany. He comes to the realization that the glory

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    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

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    Throughout the Anglo-Saxon and Middle Age periods the main characters always had a similar established value; honor. This value is prominent in Beowulf‚ "The Seafarer"‚ and The Canterbury Tales. Each of the main characters portray honor either to himself‚ his followers‚ his king‚ and/or his God. These poems are the different aspects of honor intertwined together to form the most prevailing value during this time frame. Beowulf is a story of a brave warrior who fights Grendel in the timeless battle

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    Q) Compare and contrast Gray’s “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” and Goldsmith’s “The Deserted Village”. Oliver Goldsmith’s “The Deserted Village” and Thomas Gray’s “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” were published within a gap of two years in the final decade of eighteenth century‚ i.e. 1740 and 1742 respectively. Both the poems were written in the Pastoral form‚ by which they portrayed as well as challenged the socio-political and economic developments in the eighteenth century

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    Anglo-Saxons are the people who gave us the first masterpieces of English literature. ”The Seafarer‚” “The Wanderer‚” and “The Wife’s Lament” all came from the Exeter Book. The Exeter Book originally belong to the Leofric era ( reference ).The leofric era was from (c.958-1028).The first bishop of exeter had donated the exeter book to the exeter cathedral library. The three poems are similar in style and content. “The Seafarer” is about men who made a living on a boat. The people had to leave all of the ladies

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    “Musee des Beaux Arts and Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” Many people don’t realize what is happening in the world. People choose to ignore what is really important‚ for example‚ human suffering and death. Others can’t seem to forget loved ones that have passed away and of course people don’t know what happens after death. Both poems “Musee des Beaux Arts” and “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” themes are about death. “Musee des Beaux Arts” was written in 1940. The poem indicates a

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    chose to pass on stories generation to generation to reveal their feelings and experiences. Poems made a great impact in easing the pain. In the poems‚ "The Seafarer" and "The Wanderer"‚ the themes of loneliness and exile exist throughout both of the poems. The unknown authors portray the two themes through detail and emotion. "The Seafarer" creates a storyline of a man who is "lost" at sea. There is a major reference to the concept of the sea and how it "captures" the soul and leaves a lonely

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