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The Seafarer

Old English poem

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place in English literature

  • Beowulf
    In English literature: Elegiac and heroic verse

    “The Seafarer” is similar, but its journey motif more explicitly symbolizes the speaker’s spiritual yearnings. Several others have similar themes, and three elegies—“The Husband’s Message,” “The Wife’s Lament,” and “Wulf and Eadwacer”—describe what appears to be a conventional situation: the separation of husband and wife…

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