The section in the Language of Literature text entitled "from The Exeter Book" includes three poems requiring analysis. Write a specific and thoughtful response to each posting using standard English. Only complete paragraphs will be posted.
Friday, September 11, 2009
Comparison
Of the three characters in these pieces, defend who you think faces the most difficult hardships?
Of the three characters in these poems, I believe that the wanderer has faced the greatest hardship; the seafarer is miserable, but takes pride in his work, and the wife can easily exact revenge on her husband. The wanderer, however, is a man who has been exiled from his home and been betrayed by his king and a friends. The wanderer has no way to solve his problem while the other characters do, he can only ease his problem. In addition, the only way the wanderer can only ease his problem spiritually while the constant voyage at see has likely taken a great toll on his body.
The woman from out of the Wife's Lament faces the most difficult hardships. It is hard to cope or learn a different lifestyle when you have grown to like the old one. Just being a woman is very hard it self,and to have men treat you as you are beneath them just be of that hurts. She now has to to fend for herself because her husband is no longer there to do it for her. Also now she has to live alone with no one to love her and that will make her miserable.
Each characters has faced trials and tribulations however, the wanderer has faced the most difficult hardships. To begin with, the wife is just a bitter women who's husband has left her. The seafare is also in a perdicament, but he is getting on with his life. The wanderer however, has lost all of his friends. He is now in utter misery and grief. There is nothing he can do. He is in eternal mourning of the friends he lost. Throughout the whole story, all he could do was elaborate on the good times with his friends and the misery their deaths has bestowed upon him. All in all, he is basically hopeless because his friends are irreplaceable.
Of the three characters the one that faces the most hardships is the wanderer. The wanderer faces the most hardships for numerous reasons. The paramount reason is simply wondering why. He is wondering why everything in his life has happened in a negative way. Thinking about the death of his friends, he is simply wondering why they had to die. Thinking about past events and people is why the wanderer is having internal conflict with hisself.
The Wanderer had it the hardest simply because he was alone at sea for a long time. He was very, very lonely and did not have any company to share it with. At times he felt as though he had lost his faith, or that his faith had forsaken him. Compared to the others, if they wanted to meet with civilization they could walk there, and their life was not always in jeopardy unlike that of the The Wanderer.
Each and every character has faced hardships, from the Seafarer leaving his life in favor of the sea to the Wife being forced out by her husband; However the one who faces the most hardship would have to be the Wanderer. The Seafarer, having left everything behind, could just as easily return and start over or even pick up where he left off and the Wife, promiscuous though she may be, could also move on and start over. However, the Wanderer has had the metaphorical rug ripped from beneath his feet. He can not go back to his home and start anew so he is forced to bear the weight of his actions alone.
The character from the wifes lament may have faced the most difficult hardships.Her husband has abandoned and placed her in a secluded area where she has no ohter family members. Living by herself will make her very misrable and possibly bitter.
Out of the three peoms, one can believe that "The Wanderer" had the most difficult hardship, because the character in the story just keeps thinking and thinking about all the horrible things that happened to him and his people, i.e. friends and family. The story starts out as if a person is just walking around "wandering", but in fact he's "wandering" around in his head, but then the poem turns to religion in an unexpecting shift, then back to what he was previously thinking about, the past and what it use to be like.
Regarding the three Exeter book characters and the austerity of their calamities, the wanderer seemed to face the greatest of them all. The Seafarer and the Wife contended situations of vicissitude considering that they had the potential to be changed; they weren't immutable permanent circumstances. Dissimilarly the Wanderer had a fate to the effect that he couldn't hope to alter his circumstances and was seemingly ostracized from all of society. His sanity, his hope's sole dependence was upon his faith in God. The Wife could have compensated, at least to some degree, for the loss of her husband's presence, the Seafarer could have found a new society and home for himself, but the wanderer was deprived of any resolution for change.
One can argue that the woman in the Wife's Lament suffers the greatest hardship. People are creatures of habit. They get set in their ways and should the time come to change, they find it quite difficult to do so. One can relate to the woman in the poem's heartache misery and the lost of her beloved husband.
Out of the three characters from The Exeter Book poems, the wanderer faces the most or worst hardships. Although the woman in "The Wife's Lament" was hurt by her husband that left her, then exiled her when he came back and found out that she'd committed adultery, she could move somewhere else and start a new life if she was smart enough. Similarly, the seafarer could change his circumstances if he decided to live on land instead of sailing the seas time and time again despite the harsh conditions. "The Wanderer" is the only poem of the three in which the narrator or main character is faced with unchangeable hardships, which are the deaths of his friends and family.
Of the three characters the one that faces the most hardships is the wanderer. The wanderer faces the most hardships for numerous reasons.The most stressful reason is simply wondering why. He's wondering why everything in his life had a negative inpact. Thinking about the death of his friends, he is simply wondering why they had to die. Thinking about past events and people that he has so called abandon is why the wanderer is having internal conflict with himself.
Of the three characters, it would be suggested that the wanderer would have suffered the most. His plight begins with being lost, left to stroll about aimlessly and without anyone or thing to keep company. Such an isolation leaves him crippled socially, and is known today to cause mental stress. Being the social beings that humans are, the wanderer is cut off from this social style, and forced to be an exiled individual. His happiness may never return, his pain and suffering can't be relieved as no one is there to hear his story. The Wanderer suffers the most as his very existence of being alone, outside the normal nature of humans, tells the reader just how much he is restricted.
Of the three characters in these poems, I believe that the wanderer has faced the greatest hardship; the seafarer is miserable, but takes pride in his work, and the wife can easily exact revenge on her husband. The wanderer, however, is a man who has been exiled from his home and been betrayed by his king and a friends. The wanderer has no way to solve his problem while the other characters do, he can only ease his problem. In addition, the only way the wanderer can only ease his problem spiritually while the constant voyage at see has likely taken a great toll on his body.
ReplyDeleteThe woman from out of the Wife's Lament faces the most difficult hardships. It is hard to cope or learn a different lifestyle when you have grown to like the old one. Just being a woman is very hard it self,and to have men treat you as you are beneath them just be of that hurts. She now has to to fend for herself because her husband is no longer there to do it for her. Also now she has to live alone with no one to love her and that will make her miserable.
ReplyDeleteEach characters has faced trials and tribulations however, the wanderer has faced the most difficult hardships. To begin with, the wife is just a bitter women who's husband has left her. The seafare is also in a perdicament, but he is getting on with his life. The wanderer however, has lost all of his friends. He is now in utter misery and grief. There is nothing he can do. He is in eternal mourning of the friends he lost. Throughout the whole story, all he could do was elaborate on the good times with his friends and the misery their deaths has bestowed upon him. All in all, he is basically hopeless because his friends are irreplaceable.
ReplyDeleteOf the three characters the one that faces the most hardships is the wanderer. The wanderer faces the most hardships for numerous reasons. The paramount reason is simply wondering why. He is wondering why everything in his life has happened in a negative way. Thinking about the death of his friends, he is simply wondering why they had to die. Thinking about past events and people is why the wanderer is having internal conflict with hisself.
ReplyDeleteThe Wanderer had it the hardest simply because he was alone at sea for a long time. He was very, very lonely and did not have any company to share it with. At times he felt as though he had lost his faith, or that his faith had forsaken him. Compared to the others, if they wanted to meet with civilization they could walk there, and their life was not always in jeopardy unlike that of the The Wanderer.
ReplyDeleteEach and every character has faced hardships, from the Seafarer leaving his life in favor of the sea to the Wife being forced out by her husband; However the one who faces the most hardship would have to be the Wanderer. The Seafarer, having left everything behind, could just as easily return and start over or even pick up where he left off and the Wife, promiscuous though she may be, could also move on and start over. However, the Wanderer has had the metaphorical rug ripped from beneath his feet. He can not go back to his home and start anew so he is forced to bear the weight of his actions alone.
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ReplyDeleteThe character from the wifes lament may have faced the most difficult hardships.Her husband has abandoned and placed her in a secluded area where she has no ohter family members. Living by herself will make her very misrable and possibly bitter.
ReplyDeleteOut of the three peoms, one can believe that "The Wanderer" had the most difficult hardship, because the character in the story just keeps thinking and thinking about all the horrible things that happened to him and his people, i.e. friends and family. The story starts out as if a person is just walking around "wandering", but in fact he's "wandering" around in his head, but then the poem turns to religion in an unexpecting shift, then back to what he was previously thinking about, the past and what it use to be like.
ReplyDeleteRegarding the three Exeter book characters and the austerity of their calamities, the wanderer seemed to face the greatest of them all. The Seafarer and the Wife contended situations of vicissitude considering that they had the potential to be changed; they weren't immutable permanent circumstances. Dissimilarly the Wanderer had a fate to the effect that he couldn't hope to alter his circumstances and was seemingly ostracized from all of society. His sanity, his hope's sole dependence was upon his faith in God. The Wife could have compensated, at least to some degree, for the loss of her husband's presence, the Seafarer could have found a new society and home for himself, but the wanderer was deprived of any resolution for change.
ReplyDeleteOne can argue that the woman in the Wife's Lament suffers the greatest hardship. People are creatures of habit. They get set in their ways and should the time come to change, they find it quite difficult to do so. One can relate to the woman in the poem's heartache misery and the lost of her beloved husband.
ReplyDeleteOut of the three characters from The Exeter Book poems, the wanderer faces the most or worst hardships. Although the woman in "The Wife's Lament" was hurt by her husband that left her, then exiled her when he came back and found out that she'd committed adultery, she could move somewhere else and start a new life if she was smart enough. Similarly, the seafarer could change his circumstances if he decided to live on land instead of sailing the seas time and time again despite the harsh conditions. "The Wanderer" is the only poem of the three in which the narrator or main character is faced with unchangeable hardships, which are the deaths of his friends and family.
ReplyDeleteOf the three characters the one that faces the most hardships is the wanderer. The wanderer faces the most hardships for numerous reasons.The most stressful reason is simply wondering why. He's wondering why everything in his life had a negative inpact. Thinking about the death of his friends, he is simply wondering why they had to die. Thinking about past events and people that he has so called abandon is why the wanderer is having internal conflict with himself.
ReplyDeleteOf the three characters, it would be suggested that the wanderer would have suffered the most. His plight begins with being lost, left to stroll about aimlessly and without anyone or thing to keep company. Such an isolation leaves him crippled socially, and is known today to cause mental stress. Being the social beings that humans are, the wanderer is cut off from this social style, and forced to be an exiled individual. His happiness may never return, his pain and suffering can't be relieved as no one is there to hear his story. The Wanderer suffers the most as his very existence of being alone, outside the normal nature of humans, tells the reader just how much he is restricted.
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