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The phrase “Summer’s sentinel,” meaning a cuckoo, is an example of. Kenning.

The more prominent characteristics of this poetry include heroic actions and codes of conduct, Christian ideals and various figures of speech to enhance the diction. Anglo-Saxon poetry is rich in a variety of literary features.

The word “fervent” in the sentence above would signify to have strong emotion toward something. I’t actually would quite matter what you would have your mind to, but this would be the meaning of this word.

What is the seafarer’s response to “harps, rewards,’ “passion,” and the other pleasures of life on the land (lines 44-47)? The seafarer does not respond to the pleasures of life on land.

He thinks that life at sea is better because it is away from the dangers of people and society. Reread the images of the world in lines 80-102. What main idea do they convey? The sea is symbolic for heaven.

Explanation: In these lines, we learn that the tone is one of sadness and grief. It could also be identified with words such as “suffering.” The speaker tells us that he felt hardship around his heart. This suggests a feeling of pain and misery.

WLWhat does she wish for her husband? The wife wishes that her husband with be sad-minded with hard heart-thoughts but have a smiling face along with his heartache and sorrows. This poem is an elegy because the wife mourns something she lost which was her husband.

how does the speaker in” the seafarer” feel about life at sea? he feels as thou the sea is a place of uncertainty at one minute. this sentence shows how the sea is to this man”On an ice cold sea, whirled in sorrow, Alone in a world blown clear of love, hung with icicles.

The pleasures of living on the land, then, according to the seafarer are passions, wine, and good fortune. He also mentions these things he misses about living on land: Orchards blossom, the towns bloom, Fields grow lovely as the world springs fresh.

How does the speaker of “The Seafarer” describe life on the sea and on land? The sea is the only thing you can hear and it is lonely. The land is beautiful with animals. I think he prefers the land because of how beautiful it is, but still goes to the sea.

Anything’s possible, right? At certain points in the poem, the speaker refers to the “sea-weary man,” or “those who travel the paths of the ocean.” At this point we know he’s talking about himself.

There is much argument in the literary field as to whether there is more than one speaker in the Old English poem The Seafarer.

What type of journey has the speaker never had to take? The speaker has never had to take a journey from one country to another.

The epic poem “The Seafarer” revolves around a man who is in exile in the sea. His exile is self enforced because of his desire to explore new places through travel at sea. His travels happen in the middle of winter. He greatly wishes to return to his homeland where…show more content…

The weather is freezing and harsh, the waves are powerful, and he is alone. Also, the Wanderer is forced into exile when his Lord dies, but the Seafarer’s exile is self-imposed….Who is the main character in The Seafarer?

The Seafarer is about an old sailor, and the loneliness and struggle of being out at sea. The speaker uses his loneliness out at sea along with his struggles such as the cold and hunger he faces. Both poems where written in the Anglo-Saxton era in Old English and later translated into English.

One theme in the poem is finding a place in life. Another theme of the poem is death and posterity. Our seafarer is constantly thinking about death. He fears for his life as the waves threaten to crash his ship.

In “The Seafarer,” the open ocean represents much more than just a body of water; it represents a malicious beauty that never falters to draw in the narrator.

The seafarer is an Anglo-Saxon elegy consisting of 124 lines. It does not explicitly convey sorrow or mourning for the dead but an all pervading elegiac tone concerning personal frustration and wastage of time prevails all through including an exposure to sorrowful exile of life on the sea.

From this perspective, the author of “The Ruin” could be describing the downfall of the Roman Empire by showing its once great and beautiful structure reduced to rubble just as the empire was. “The Ruin” shares the melancholic worldview of some of its contemporary poems such as The Seafarer, The Wanderer and Deor.

In “The Ruin”, the narrator describes what he sees before him: a ruined, empty city which is just a shell of its former glory. It is clear that time has ravaged this place, but that the true catalyst to its destruction was the plague that killed nearly all of its inhabitants, including the strongest men.

The main topic or theme of this enigmatic poem would be the transient nature of a city’s glory. Some historians argue that this poem (with its descriptions of bathing houses) is about the fall of the Roman city of Bath. Others argue that the poem is a commentary on the fall of the Roman Empire.

The Old English poem, The Ruined City describes a place of ruins and muses of the fate and fortunes of it’s former inhabitants. The poet may have had in mind “A Roman City”, the former splendor of which is contrasted with it’s dilapidation in.

The story is set in the Depression years of the 1930s, when a rich London financier, Henry Warren, suffering from health problems and a broken marriage, decides to disappear from his old life, and travel incognito in the industrial North, now plagued with unemployment.

Our hearts at random down the dark of life. The poem begins with the speaker stating, very directly, that he has been “so great a lover.” This makes clear that the title is a reference to the speaker’s own abilities as a lover of others and objects.

1 : a poem in elegiac couplets. 2a : a song or poem expressing sorrow or lamentation especially for one who is dead. b : something (such as a speech) resembling such a song or poem.

1a : suggestive or expressive of sadness or depression of mind or spirit sang in a melancholy voice. b : causing or tending to cause sadness or depression of mind or spirit : dismal a melancholy thought. 2a : depressed in spirits : dejected, sad. b : pensive.

Examples of famed elegies include: “Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear,/Compels me to disturb your season due:/For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime,/Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer.” dear father!/This arm beneath your head;/It is some dream that on deck,/You’ve fallen cold and dead.”