The Wanderer

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The speaker tells the reader that nowadays since he’s completely alone, there is no one to whom he can “tell clearly [his] inmost thoughts.” His relatives are dead, and one of the consequences of this is that he’s entirely alone. He doesn’t want to reveal his thoughts to just anyone; they’re personal to him. This is a theme common to Old English poetry, as is solitude. Irrelevant,” Ray Anne said. “I wonder what he’s doing here. I heard Ben had no next of kin. You don’t suppose cuddly old Ben was hiding a handsome brother? No, no, that would be cruel.” The Ramrod" (Charlie Furby) is a tough-looking man who is really a fantasist. He insists that he has been transported to planets such as Ispan, whose location only he knows, but later admits he did this entirely in his fantasies. He is accompanied by two women who may both be his wives, part of a polygamous sect.

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In my granted limited experience, it seems ubiquitous that anytime a religious sect transcribes for the prior Pagan community, the text is changed, integrated, or destroyed to suit the religious predisposition of the transcriber. In the Classics world, there’s a pagan continuity hypothesis with the very origin of Christianity, and many overt references to Greek plays in the Gospel of John. He, at that point, understands that the world is continually fluctuating, and a man’s educational encounters, acceptable and awful, are at last what makes him shrewd. The Wanderer records the exercises that he has realized; that an astute man should not be hurried in the discourse, rash or whimsical in the fight, and he should not be anxious, voracious, or bombastic. For fifteen years. I knew he was raised by his dad, that they had a bar and bait shop on the coast. We met in the Army. He was a helicopter mechanic and everyone called him Gentle Ben. He was the sweetest man who ever lived, all six foot six of him. I can’t imagine him standing up to a robber—not only would he hand over the money, he’d invite the guy to dinner.” Before Gina could weigh in the door to the diner opened, the bell tinkling to announce Ray Anne in her version of the Realtor’s business suit — too short, too tight, too much boobage. She scowled. “Sarah, that dog should be on a leash!”

Donaldson, E. T. "The Battle of Maldon" (PDF). wwnorton.com. W.W. Norton . Retrieved 10 September 2017. The following lines bring in an idea that the speaker mentioned previously, that someone who experiences sorrow and loss as the wanderer has knows things that others don’t. A man, the speaker says, isn’t wise until he owns “a share of winters in the kingdom of this world.” This is yet another example of “cold” as a symbol of this speaker’s state of being. It might also be connected to age, or years/winters, that have passed. The elderly have similar knowledge to those that have been exiled. Anhaga: Pray for Hardship & Other Poems (Smoking Lung Press, 2011), ISBN 9781551524306 [first publ. 1983]). Andy Brown, '"I Went Disguised in it": Re-evaluating Seamus Heaney's Stations', in British Prose Poetry: the Poems Without Lines, ed. by Jane Monson - (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), pp. 177-92 (p. 181); ISBN 978-3-319-77862-4, doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-77863-1.

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Dunning, T. P.; Bliss, A. J. (1969). The Wanderer. New York. pp.91–92, 94. {{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( link) She took a breath. He had her there. She flew Search and Rescue with the Coast Guard. There were those occasions that were risky. Edgy. And admittedly, that was part of what she loved best about it. “I trust you’ll be wearing your helmet tonight?” For Pete’s sake, can you look at me?” she asked. And when he straightened, heavy duffle over one shoulder, she gasped. There was a bruise on his cheekbone.Then he saw not one but two eagles circling over the point on Ben’s side of the beach. It was a rare and beautiful sight. The Wanderer now expands his ruminations towards the supernatural. He says that the Creator of Men has made the world unpredictable, and that hardships can happen to anyone at any time. Things can go from bad to good in a moment. The Wanderer hypothesizes that the Creator of Men, who created human civilization and conflict, is also wise. Even He has memories of battles, remembering one certain horse or man. He, like the Wanderer, also must lament the loss of treasure, festivities, and glorious leaders. The Wanderer contemplates the way that all these things disappear in time, leaving behind nothing but darkness.

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The development of critical approaches to The Wanderer corresponds closely to changing historical trends in European and Anglo-American philology, literary theory, and historiography as a whole. [10] The poem comes to its conclusion as the speaker reflects on what his increased sight teaches him. As seems obvious by this point, the speaker comes to the conclusion that life is complicated, hard, and ultimately depressing and lonely. Fate, he decides, governs everything and everyone. This was an idea that came up very early in the poem and to which he’s returned, a common practice in this long poem. There is something of a contrast between “fate” and the “Creator” that he also spent time talking about. One suggests randomness, while the other suggests intention. Everyone, he adds, belongs to God and to God will return. Greenblatt, Stephen (2012). The Norton Anthology of English Literature: Volume A. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. p.117. ISBN 978-0-393-91247-0. The Wanderer." The Norton Anthology of English Literature. Ed. Julie Reidhead. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2012. 117-118. Print. Scholars disagree about the number of speakers represented in the poem, with some contending that there is only one and others believing that in the shift from personal tales to general advice, a new narrator has taken over the poem. Scholars commonly claim that the first seven lines of the poem are an introduction, the Wanderer's monologue begins in line 8, and a new monologue begins in line 92. The second monologue could either be a wise man delivering a new speech by a second speech by the Wanderer himself, who has evolved into a wise man.The drifter is set out toward a discourse; above all, the speaker tells the reader that the vagabond is contemplating the difficulties he’s needed to endure. These incorporate the deaths of “dear kinsmen.” The eighth line of the sonnet gets the principal lines of the discourse, remembered for quotes. He grinned at her, that handsome grin that had once belonged to their deceased father. “You get enough sleep without me boring you to death,” he said. “Why couldn’t you just be a flight attendant or something?” In "The Wanderer's Courage" (2005), L. Beaston describes the psychological or spiritual progress of the wanderer as an "act of courage of one sitting alone in meditation", who through embracing the values of Christianity seeks "a meaning beyond the temporary and transitory meaning of earthly values". [9] Interpretation [ edit ] Critical history [ edit ] The wall against which soldiers have fallen is “wondrously high” and covers in depictions of serpents. The area has been destroyed and plundered, as have the warriors from their lives. The speakers were hungry for slaughter, and their fate was solidified. Some people like to say “Facts don’t care about your feelings,” but here they are precious few facts. So all we have are feelings. To be tested on the language of the text & what models & paradigms we set up.