Sorry for rambling, but I just wanted to chime in with my appreciation. Nobody knows _exactly_ what the poem is about. stirring rime-chill seas, hands as oars Even the so-called stoic spirit of the main speaker is pretty just the product of Germanic nationalistic fanstasies originating in Tacitus. seeing all around a fallowness of waves, A wise man must not boast until he is free of doubt. An ambitious man can conceal his sorrowful heart, but he cannot escape it. Where is the giver of treasure? in his breast an apology for speaking at all, and speech Even less for its origins in pagan or Christian. This is fiction: authors are not the same as narrators. Found the reference to thus poem in Alexandra Harris book Weatherland. Hail from the North beats back my narrow hopes, (A) The speakers are the narrator and wanderer. 2005 eNotes.com The omniscient speaker then makes an interesting statement about fate and how "fate is inflexible" (5). In the Classics world, theres a pagan continuity hypothesis with the very origin of Christianity, and many overt references to Greek plays in the Gospel of John. The tradition is renewed & remade with each new telling. "Who are the speakers in the poem? However in the context of the implications of the poem, I have chosen to readit, as worm-worked an image of the sides of a grave that already holds each of his contemporaries and awaits him before too long he hopes because his world is long-vanished into the mist of Time.. A beautiful, exquisite translation as is your addendum. Download the entire The Wanderer study guide as a printable PDF! "The Wanderer" is often coupled with "The Seafarer" in academic settings, and many critical studies focus on these poems as a pair. For example, The Seafarer, The Wifes Lament, andBeowulf.The latter is the best-known of the Anglo-Saxon Old English poem. This is a theme common to Old English poetry, as is solitude. I agree honestly, in my university research at the moment we tend strongly away from the fallacy of pagan reflex vs. Christian writing. The wall against which soldiers have fallen is wondrously high and covers in depictions of serpents. when sleep and sorrow stand together Stumbled on this translation from a reddit thread. Many of the poems in Exeter Book deal with the pain of exile. One suggests randomness, while the other suggests intention. It reads almost word-for-word on the Anglo-Saxon. You are free to disagree with any of it. The speakers on the poem 'The Wanderer' are the same person.

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