The Wanderer (anglo-saxon themes and ideas)
Anglo-Saxon Themes or Ideas and Literary Techniques on "The Wanderer" In an old monastery British experts found a piece of literature entitled "The Wanderer." The piece was written in Latin, so the British assumed it was from the medieval period. When Virginia Jones studied it, she was convinced it was not from the medieval period, but from the Anglo-Saxon period. After evaluating "The Wanderer" my team from Oxford and I agree with Dr. Jones. We found many Anglo-Saxon ideas (or themes) and several literary techniques used in the Anglo-Saxon period as well. Many Anglo-Saxon themes were used. One example is the combination of Christian and pagan ideas. An example of a pagan idea from the text is "the fates of men." A Christian idea might be "Good man is he when guardith his faith." An Anglo-Saxon theme we also saw used was the me
In the poem the "tossing sea" is described to show he's at sea. " One of the most common Anglo-Saxon techniques was the alliteration. " A warrior swearing his loyalty to his lord is another Anglo-Saxon idea. The next thing we looked for were the Anglo-Saxon literary techniques. The poem had an elegiac mood, which was shown in the poem by the speaker's tone that sounded like he was in sorrow or mourn of deaths. The Lyric poem was a common Anglo-Saxon technique. " The last literary technique we saw was the use of kennings. Two quotations from the text are "Evenin slumber his sorrow as saileth and dreaming, he claspeth his dear lord again," and "Head on knee, hand on knee loyalty laying pledging his liege. " The words fate and wyrd show that it is an Anglo-Saxon poem. "Dreams of hall men," The dealing of treasure. An example from the text is the constant misery, woe over his lord and his companion's deaths, wretchedness of the traveling sea. The reason for the Latin writing could have been from a monk translating the Old English to Latin.
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