Title- Comparative Analysis of The Wanderer and The Seafarer.
Date Submitted: 08/07/2004 14:28:54
Category: / Literature / European Literature
Length: 9 pages (2409 words)
Category: / Literature / European Literature
Length: 9 pages (2409 words)
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, …
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…God, which is typical of Christian behaviour. This poem contains only christian values, so my hypothesis is not confirmed.
Bibliography
Primary sources
1. Lehnert Martin, Poetry and Prose of the Anglo-Saxons, Veb Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin, 1955
Secondary sources
1. Abrams M.H. (ed.), The Norton Anthology of English Literature, fifth edition, volume1
2. Franko Shtefan, Theory of Anglophonic Literatures, Slovacontact, Preshov, 1994
3. Mack Maynard (ed.), The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces, W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 1985
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