The Wanderer stood at the edge of the Furron Cliffs‚ taking in the lush green expanse of the Voren plains broken only by the herder village of Stinsa and the Collys just a few miles to its north. From his vantage point‚ he could make out small herds of bremen scattered here and there grazing for whatever scraps of food they could make use of. Amongst them‚ farmers tested the soil for any indication that their crops would grow for the new season or if they would have make another donation to the ration
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In both of these poems the protagonists are in a position where they are in a position where they have to be alone. Additionally‚ the two poems share a common mindset‚ tone‚ and progression. For example in The Wanderer the protagonist speaks about a time when he was happy in the past but is no longer in a point of time where he is happy (lines 19-44). Similarly‚ in The Wife’s Lament the protagonist speaks of a time when she loved her husband (lines
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In reading The Wanderer‚ one is also immediately struck by the poignancy and lingering anguish underlying the text as it adopts a somewhat elegiac dolefulness in addressing some of the most common themes in Old English poetry - the flow of time and the transience of earthly beings‚ the agonizing grief of exile in a place of tragic impermanence‚ and the harshness of longing and disconnection. But amongst the many metaphorical representations‚ the imagery of the mead-hall seems most imperative to the
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at war with the Vikings and soon the Anglo Saxons King died. “The Wanderer”‚ is an Old English poem written during the time King Edward died; it discusses a warrior’s lone journey to find a new lord and ponders through thoughts‚ memories‚ and craves companionship. “The Seafarer”‚ is also an Old English poem written during the Anglo-Saxon time‚ it is about a seafarer who longs for the waves of the sea and similar to the wanderer‚ he has no companion. The people described in both poems have very
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The Comparison of the Wanderer and the Seafarer The Wanderer and The Seafarer belong to elegies‚ wh ich are ´the most subjective and emotional part of Anglo-Saxon poetry being otherwise much restraine d in real feeling and emotion´ . The word elegy is derived from ´the Greek elegos meaning funeral so ng´ and like all elegies both poems are full of melancholy‚ mournful mood. The influence of christi anity‚ which penetrated into Anglo-Saxon society in the sixth and seventh century‚ is evident
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Student: Hassan Mohammad Hilles. Instructor: Prof. Dr. Kawther Mahdi Course Title: Modern English and American Poetry Wystan Hugh Auden Wystan Hugh Auden was born in York‚ England‚ in 1907. He moved to Birmingham during childhood and was educated at Christ Church‚ Oxford. As a young man he was influenced by the poetry of Thomas Hardy and Robert Frost‚ as well as William Blake‚ Emily Dickinson‚ Gerard Manley Hopkins‚ and Old English verse. At Oxford his precocity as a poet was immediately
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The painting I decided to do critiques on is the Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog by the best-known Gothic Romantic Caspar David Friedrich. This artwork was created in 1818 in Hamburg‚ Germany. This landscape is currently displayed at Hamburger Kunsthalle who is as well the owner. This artwork is done on a canvas and the medium is oil. In the painting‚ we can see there is a masculine figure (possibly be the painter) having his back to the painting‚ on top of a mountain or cliff‚ and looking downwards
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The Unknown Citizen Wystan Hugh Auden (To JS/07/M/378 This Marble Monument Is Erected by the State) 1. He was found by the Bureau of Statistics to be 2. One against whom there was no official complaint‚ 3. And all the reports on his conduct agree 4. That‚ in the modern sense of an old-fashioned word‚ he was a saint‚ 5. For in everything he did he served the Greater Community. 6. Except for the War till the day he retired 7. He worked in a factory and never got fired‚ 8. But satisfied
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The Comparison of the Wanderer and the Seafarer The Wanderer and The Seafarer belong to elegies‚ which are ´the most subjective and emotional part of Anglo-Saxon poetry being otherwise much restrained in real feeling and emotion´ . The word elegy is derived from ´the Greek elegos meaning funeral song´ and like all elegies both poems are full of melancholy‚ mournful mood. The influence of christianity‚ which penetrated into Anglo-Saxon society in the sixth and seventh century‚ is evident in both
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Analysis:W.H.Auden’s “The Shield of Achilles” 01. Analysis of W.H.Auden’s “The Shield of Achilles” .“The Shield of Achilles” belongs to W.H.Auden’s collection The Shield of Achilles published in 1955The classical myth of Achilles is employed by Auden to exemplify the contrast between the valiant past and unheroic present. The myth of the past is juxtaposed with the reality of the present. The classical world is set against modernity. Monroe.K.Spears asserts that the shield symbolizes images of
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