Prosperity, but to say the least there has always been conflict. And it is within these conflicts we
find the darkest side of man. This is the age of the Anglo Saxon one of the bleakest
times in all history. A world ravaged by frequent invaders feed on by starvation, and a constant
barrage of viruses that devastated villages. But it was here in these bleak period of time that
we see people sing or writing a poem about the hardships they had to endure. Three of which
stood out among all other which were The Seafarer, The Wanderer and The wife’s lament.
All three poems have a similar background in which it is told by a non noble perspective …show more content…
Following up by stating that there is nothing leaf in this world
for him.Even more similar to the Wander is the Wife’s Lament. In which a woman is exiled by a
far away lord, and forced to leave everything. While under the same circumstance she must
live in the woods under an oak tree. Where she finds herself alone, and forsaken. In which we
see how the lives of there three people shared a grim life to behold.
Trailing up to their state of mind one can only imagine what they are feeling in their
mind. Following that we have seen how the sailor in the Seafarer has given up all hope and feel
that the sea has been sweeping him back and forth. Other than the Wander who feels more of
an outsider. Saying that he would share his beard of sorrow to atone for his exile in all the land.
Supplementary the woman in the Wife's Lament feels in a sense of sadness for not only being
exiled, but has also had no one with her in her exile. Therefor in each person we can feel a sense of
both sadness, but also the scene of that all is loss, and if there was hope it had died off a long
time ago.
Followed to the point of seeing what they see can give multiple expressions of