LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MEDIEVAL LITERATURE AND CULTURE
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The desire to travel in search of wisdom with the social conventions
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The folly of earthly things with the wisdom of heaven
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The speaker’s spiritual regression with the increasing trend of Christian conversions
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The desire for a more advanced world with stagnant social progress
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Wanderer conveys the meditations of a solitary exile on his past happiness as a member of his lord’s band of retainers, his present hardships and the values of forbearance and faith in the heavenly Lord.
Detailed explanation-2: -What is the wanderer’s situation? The wanderer’s lord died and he is left lonely and without means to support himself.
Detailed explanation-3: -When the wise man contemplates this building and thinks carefully about life, he speaks as follows: He laments the passing of life’s pleasures and the people who once enjoyed them. He remarks how the time passes away into nothingness, as though it had never been.
Detailed explanation-4: -The anonymous writer of ‘The Wanderer’ engages with themes of loneliness, suffering, and religion in the text. These themes are quite common within the best-known Anglo-Saxon verse. The speaker in this piece is well acquainted with sorrow and describes a “wanderer” experiences with it.