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		An indication of the force of this particular application of the Anglo-Saxon case ending -um is provided by I.L.Gordon's note to geswincdagum, in line 2 of her edition of The Seafarer, 1960, where she refers to the "use of the dative to give attendant circumstances".
		In the precisely measured first half of The Seafarer the poet is recording a pagan past, as well as a sea-going life of personal endurance and endeavour, both vividly realistic and allegorical.
		The poem’s final 25 lines prescribe for them a frame of mind, and a course of conduct upon earth, to ensure their heavenly future.
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	Poetry Daily Prose Feature: Edward Hirsch, "'Exchanging Signals with the Planet Mars': Reading as Relationship" (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The poem, like a message in a bottle, comes from an enormous distance and only survives because a curious reader in a study, or a browser in a bookstore, or a student in a library, who is like an unsuspecting wanderer on a shoreline, finds and revivifies it.
		A poem, as a manifestation of language and thus essentially dialogue, can be a message in a bottle, sent out in the — not always greatly hopeful — belief that somewhere and sometime it could be washed up on land, on heartland perhaps.
		The poem establishes a correspondence between the inner realm of the house and the outer one of the cosmos.
	www.poems.com /essahirs.htm (3908 words)

	§9. "The Seafarer". III. Early National Poetry. Vol. 1. From the Beginnings to the Cycles of Romance. The ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Seafarer is a poem of about the same length as The Wanderer and resembles it in several passages rather closely.
		In order to explain the apparent contradictions of the poem some scholars have proposed to take it as a dialogue between an old seaman and a young man who wishes to try the seaman’s life; but there is a good deal of disagreement as to the distribution of the lines.
		The second half of the poem, with its religious reflections, is believed by many to be a later addition.
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	ERBzin-e 646: Seafarer
		They brought back to the island those seafaring habits which the Saxons had lost in their sojourn on up-country farms, and it was due to them that a vigorous town life revived in England for the first time since the departure of the Romans.
		In a personal tale that is true, The Seafarer tells a story of "times of trouble" breathing the breath "of bitterest woe." His education was a long one aboard a ship that dared "the terrible toss of waves" where he traveled even by night "with anxious care" along the rocky walls of dangerous cliffs.
		Then, in a definitely Christian turn, The Seafarer turns upon his tradition of valor and glorious deeds and declares them but satan's net and "dross remains." Rather than eternal renown and praise in Valhalla, the Viking's "glory is gone and the days are dead." Those Viking star snatchers are gone.
	www.angelfire.com /trek/erbzine12/erbz646.html (852 words)

	The Wanderer (poem) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is a profoundly mournful poem, to the extent that it is an elegy, in which the author, an aged man, speaks of an attack upon his people that happened in his youth.
		Three notable elements of the poem are the use of the "Beasts of Battle" motif, the "ubi sunt" formula and the siþ-motif.
		The structure of the poem is of four stress-lines of different lengths, divided by a caesura.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Wanderer_(poem) (510 words)

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		The poem is untitled as written, but the name Deor is cited within the poem as its author, and so this has been commonly taken as the title.
		Medievalist scholars who have placed the poem within Old English poetry have seen it as a "begging poem": A poem written by a travelling and begging poet who is without a place at a noble court.
		The poem runs through a list of legendary figures, asks what happened to them, and then returns to a refrain of "ÃÃ¦s ofereode, Ã¾isses swa mÃ¦g!" ("that was overcome (with respect to it) this may also be (with respect to it)").
	www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/Deor (394 words)

	Notes on The Seafarer
		Homeless wanderer: (1) literal seafarer, (2) "real" Christian peregrinus, (3) exile from Paradise.
		As bleak or perhaps bleaker in its tone and imagery than The Wanderer, the Seafarer is decidedly more homiletic after its "composition of place" than is the former poem.
		It falls abruptly into two parts: (1) the symbol and (2) an application of the symbol.
	faculty.uca.edu /~jona/second/seanotes.htm (239 words)

	Brit Lit Assignment Archives 03 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The poems must be in iambic pentameter (or pretty close).
		The speaker of the poem should call the person a name that is more clever than angry.
		The poem should build toward the most clever insult, one that really “gets” the subject, which then becomes part of the rhyming couplet at the end.
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	How to Read a Poem
		A poem, as a manifestation of language and thus essentially dialogue, can be a message in a bottle, sent out in the—not always greatly hopeful—belief that somewhere and sometime it could wash up on land, on heartland perhaps.
		Another one of the "Inscriptions" is a two-line poem that Whitman wrote in 1860.
		One notices how naturally he addresses the poem not to the people around him, whom he already knows, but to the "stranger," to the future reader, to you and me, to each of us who would pause with him in the open air.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/first/h/hirsch-poem.html (1006 words)

	[minstrels] The Seafarer -- Anon
		The last alliterative poem in English is usually held to be "Scottish Fielde," which deals with the Battle of Flodden (1513).
		In the best poems such formulas, far from being tedious, give a strong impression of the richness of the cultural fund from which poets could draw.
		Other standard devices of this poetry are the kenning, a metaphorical name for a thing, usually expressed in a compound noun (e.g., "swan-road" used to name the sea); and variation, the repeating of a single idea in different words, with each repetition adding a new level of meaning.
	www.cs.rice.edu /~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/326.html (1343 words)

	Essays.cc - The Two Voices Of The Seafarer
		The poem begins by telling us of how the young seafarer has “often suffered times of hardship / and have experienced / bitter anxiety.” He is journeying into a world of loneliness and a destiny away from his comitatus, his meadhall, and his lord.
		In one of the first know criticisms of the poem, Max Rieger in 1869 postulated that the poem is of one writer and speaks of a dialogue between two individuals; an eager young sailor and an older more cautious one (Rieger, 313).
		She believes that the man in the poem has voluntarily abandoned society for the love of God, and is preaching the love of God over the love of society.
	www.essays.cc /free_essays/c2/tda415.shtml (1702 words)

	Old English Poetry - The Seafarer
		Students read an on-line article regarding Anglo Saxon (Viking) ship use and explore the Anglo Saxon poem "The Seafarer." Through the use of a hypertext version of this poem, students are introduced to the original Old English.
		Annotation: This hypertext version of the Anglo Saxon poem "The Seafarer" is useful in illustrating how the translation process from Old to Mondern English is labor-intensive and not achieved on a word-by-word basis.
		Students who are unable to recognize the theme and meaning of "The Seafarer" may be inexperienced in the art of analyzing a poem.
	www.glc.k12.ga.us /BuilderV03/LPTools/LPShared/lpdisplay.asp?Session_Stamp=&LPID=14180 (1217 words)

	ERBzine 0635: George McWhorter Story: The Seafarer
		The Seafarer is a poem, but not an ordinary poem.
		But McWhorter's command of the poetic idiom is such that the poem can well stand on its merits even without the dimensions of linguistic and historical scholarship.
		The Seafarer is the reminiscence of a sailing man who has known the rigors and grandeurs of the northern seas, the transience of man and the glory of God.
	www.erbzine.com /mag6/0635.html (1207 words)

	Seafarer (poem) Summary
		Among the most interesting poems included in the Exeter Book are The Wanderer and The Seafarer, poems of exile and solitude told in the first person.
		These poems can be considered elegies; in fact the writer tends to...
		"The Seafarer" can be categorized as Anglo-Saxon lyric poetry for its uses of kennings, pessimistic and fatalistic tones, poetic structure, themes that include love of the sea, loneliness and exile, fate or Wyrd, and added Christian perspective.
	www.bookrags.com /Seafarer_(poem) (115 words)

	Songs of Ancient Heroes
		This poem is not a story but a serious look at life from the point of view of someone who has known great hardship and suffering.
		According to the poem, the seafarer can’t resist the lure of the sea for long.
		This gives a simple and clear connection between the first part of the poem and the second: the earthly life of the poet is full of misery and privation.
	www.bc.k12.pa.us /Library/hslib/Ancient_Heroes_2.htm (3316 words)

	Susanne Gaertner, translation of The Seafarer 39-67
		Notwithstanding that, I have tried to create an alliterative poem based on modern English language, paying also attention to the rhythmical, special feature of the conjunction 'forþon' which serves as an indicator of the paragraphs within the poem by introducing a rhythm of four unstressed syllables before the first alliterative syllable.
		secular sphere: the word 'earth' in the original occurs in a passage which is concerned with man in society and civilisation, the very place the seafarer dismisses and renounces in favour of a spiritual and transcendental existence--this idea is sought to be foreshadowed in the expression 'secular world', implying the spiritual opposition to it.
		53 - downcast carol: warning of inauspicious events juxtaposed to 'carol', per definition a merry song--this oxymoron is to emphasise the paradox of the seafarer's inner desires, his projection of the mundane world's pleasures he renounces upon his aim of an existence removed from physical substance and desires.
	www.rhul.ac.uk /English/Old-English/students/seafarer_gaertner.html (905 words)

	Preface:
		The Wanderer focuses on elements of the poem including the sources with specific attention to the pagan and Christian elements, the dream sequence of the poem, and the number of speakers, especially as related to the structure.
		the sources of the poem with reference to Christian and pagan elements suggests we characterize the poem in the genre of a Christian “plaint” or “planctus” (Rosemary Woolf 206).
		Another example of such unnecessarily complicated re-creating of this poem surfaces in Nancy Varian Berberick’s translation, which she has even called “The Home-Reft,” and leaves most contemporary readers probably uncertain of who or what the poem is about.
	homepages.bw.edu /~uncover/wandererpreface.htm (2569 words)

	Poetry Daily Prose Feature: Marion K. Stocking, "Scandinavian, Germanic, and Slavic Poetry Today," from Beloit Poetry ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The third poem, the "Poem on Death," is in stepped quatrains, organized in seven increasingly long sections.
		Year by year the poems expand in scope – always with playfulness; always a folkloric flavor, always the shock of imagination; typically with a dark or bitter edge.
		Her poems on Nazi freight trains, on the history of torture through the ages, and on the end of what was to have been a glorious century are eloquent, memorable (worth memorizing), and, yes, grim.
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	[minstrels] Landscape: I -- bpNichol
		Auden's 'Musee des Beaux Arts' is another poem based on a Brueghel; this time, his 'Fall of Icarus': poem #68 e.
		The fifth of the 'Ten Views' sequence, for instance, charts the poem in terms of "walking west along the southern boundary looking north", while the last is a labyrinthine view beginning on the exterior and walking in.
		In this case the real visual poem was something you could only see for a few minutes: the book burning in front of you.
	www.cs.rice.edu /~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/497.html (644 words)

	Poet: nimal dunuhinga - All poems of nimal dunuhinga
		Poet: nimal dunuhinga - All poems of nimal dunuhinga
		I was a Seafarer for 15 years, presently working with Saudi Aramco Company in kingdom of Saudi Arabia.I am married and having two daughters, all the loved ones left in Sri Lanka.I am a free lance writer.
		Poems By Poet nimal dunuhinga, 5/17/2006 10:47:39 AM (still the majority cannot see under the bright light).
	www.poemhunter.com /nimal-dunuhinga (432 words)

	The Seafarer Summary & Essays - Anonymous
		Moreover, the poem can be read as a dramatic monologue, the thoughts of one person, or as a dialogue between two people.
		Moreover, “The Seafarer” can be thought of as an allegory discussing life as a journey and the human condition as that of exile from God on the sea of life.
		For comparison, read Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.” Whatever themes one finds in the poem, “The Seafarer” is a powerful account of a sensitive poet’s interaction with his environment.
	www.enotes.com /seafarer (436 words)

	Unit One Lecture (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This epic poem is believed to be a 7th century composition that was first written down in the 9th century.
		The first section of "The Seafarer" was probably added on by a monk at Exeter who determined that there was a spiritual side of life that must be addressed.
		Still, this poem seems to be rendered through the voice of a seafarer who has taken his last journey, saying ironically that when at sea he greatly missed the land, but when back home he longed for the adventure of the sea.
	home.comcast.net /~pdkphs/new/unit1.html (2276 words)

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		The first part is almost purely about the life of a seafarer, of a lament for the life of sailor; longing for the comforts of hearth and home while at sea, but for the sea itself when at home, and lasts until line 64a.
		The book was certainly not the first time the poem was recorded, merely the only one to survive the thirteen hundred years between the book's compilation and today.
		Line 102, the last line in what I consider to be the original poem, would seem to be the end of a gather, meaning that one could easily insert more material after it by inserting a new gather.
	www.mymegaverse.org /nexx/pro/seafarer.html (1795 words)

	Cornucopia - Medieval Studies at Cornell
		Menner, the latest editor of the poem, argues that runes in this poem "represent the last vestige of an ancient pagan Germanic tradition, according to which the runes themselves possessed magic power.
		Critical approaches to the Old English poem "The Seafarer" have identified two areas of confusion: the interpretation of the word forthon, and the continuity (or lack thereof) between the intense and changeable emotions described in the first part of the poem and the gnomic wisdom expressed in the second part.
		I will argue that, in order to critique the conflicting and profoundly worldly values expressed in the first part of the poem, and to reproduce in the reader his own post-conversion view of his former feelings, the poet deliberately produces disorientation by using "forthan" in unexpected ways.
	www.arts.cornell.edu /medieval/People/students/colloquium/coll_97.htm (2189 words)

	Poetry Brainbuster
		They contain a poem about a woman whose husband was captured in battle and who must live with her angry relatives.
		Which poem of Edmund Spenser’s fills six volumes and is monumental in scope, presenting nothing less than the whole civilization of his era in poetry?
		Which group of poets wrote poems like those of the Latin poets Horace and Ovid, were concerned about symmetry of form, expressed a playful tone and some sensuousness, and ignored the sonnet form altogether?
	www.wvup.edu /Academics/humanities/Oldaker/poetry_brainbuster.htm (2128 words)

	Seafarer (poem) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		"The Seafarer" and "The Wanderer" are two Old English poems included in the Exeter Book.
		These poems can be considered elegies; and tell a first-person story of exile and solitude, contrasting the hard times of the present with evocation of a glorious past: memory becomes a source of consolation.
		The Seafarer is a 124 line poem that deals with the experience of an outsider.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Seafarer_(poem) (169 words)

	British Literature Study Questions
		In the early years of converting the Germanic peoples to Christianity, much emphasis was placed on introducing the Anglo-Saxon-like people to the Old Testament before discussing the ideas of the New Testament.
		Look at these poems and try to find moments of tension between different possible meanings--within discreet lines and within the poem as a whole.
		Discuss how a poem or poems by either Wyatt or Surrey make a comment on English society.
	research.uvsc.edu /mcdonald/britquestions/Britsq.html (8101 words)

	SIU - Letters to the Editor
		Editorâs note: the Seafarers LOG reserves the right to edit letters for grammar as well as space provisions without changing the writerâs intent.
		The LOG welcomes letters from members, pensioners, their families and shipmates and will publish them on a timely basis.
		We then went to England and took 700 troops aboard bound for Boston, Mass., where there was a big welcome home for the troops.
	www.seafarers.org /log/2002/112002/novletters.xml (303 words)

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