The Wanderer

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Daniel Albright, 'Modernist Poetic Form', in The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century English Poetry, ed. by Neil Corcoran (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), pp. 24-41 (p. 33). The date of the poem is impossible to determine, but scholarly consensus considers it to be older than the Exeter Book itself, which dates from the late 10th century. [2] The inclusion of a number of Norse-influenced words, such as the compound hrimceald (ice-cold, from the Old Norse word hrimkaldr), and some unusual spelling forms, has encouraged others to date the poem to the late 9th or early 10th century. [3]

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Caesural stops were a significant piece of Anglo-Saxon verse. Regularly, the lines were halted halfway through and got later on. For instance, the 10th line of the sonnet peruses: “Bewail my distress; there is presently none living.” The first form is “mine ceare cwiþan. Nis nu cwicra nan.” In the next lines, the speaker describes how he sought out “a giver of treasure,” or a new lord, everywhere he went. He thought there might be someone who “might wish” to comfort him and remedy his friendlessness. He knows that if he can’t find a new situation for himself that he’s going to end up on a “path of exile” where there’s no “twisted gold” but “frozen feelings” and no glory. Hank Cooper here, Deputy,” he said, and in spite of himself, he straightened and squared his shoulders. He’d always been resistant to authority, yet he also responded to it. “I’m a friend of Ben Bailey and on my way into town to find out what happened to him.”The traditionla & superannuated paradigms for OE literature are themselves “unnecessary and a waste of time”— they’ve been proven to be. They do not lead to new insights into the literature, they dont help us understand that world. You’d really have to search to find a working scholar that makes this claim any longer (not that there are none). It goes against every bit of codicological evidence we have & really emanates out of mythology & fabulation. I’ve said why, repeatedly — I’m not repeating it for you now. Scroll up. The novel is set in a future a few decades after the mid-1960s, when it was written. The Space Race is still on-going, and while both the USA and the USSR have lunar bases, by Soviets have gained the lead by sending an expedition to Mars.

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He grinned at her, that handsome grin that had once belonged to their deceased father. “You get enough sleep without me boring you to death,” he said. “Why couldn’t you just be a flight attendant or something?”

Rule number one of Internets: no one owes you a debate. I have responded in generosity & fairness to every _polite_ commenter & presented alternatives to these musty old critical commonplaces about Old English literature. Instead of making a claim or providing evidence to assrt why I’m wrong, the next commenter makes the exact same statement, in almost the exact same words. That’s not a conversation, that’s a concatenation — and I simply do not have time for it. I give the same response, and I have been given no reason to mediate my response. But I am no longer going to do so. Repeated comments will be moderated out of existence.

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Some people like to say “Facts don’t care about your feelings,” but here they are precious few facts. So all we have are feelings. To be tested on the language of the text & what models & paradigms we set up. The novel follows the lives of disparate people around the globe. There is a man attempting a solo crossing of the Atlantic Ocean, a smuggler operating off the coast of Vietnam, two friends in England, a trio of drug addicts in New York City, and the military controllers of the USA Moon mission, deep in a bunker somewhere near Washington, D.C.Yeah, well, I hope I don’t get in trouble for that. A couple of us went out to run some plays, some passes, and I got nailed. It was an accident.” The Old English text is taken from the electronic version of the poems of the Exeter Book available at the Labyrinth, now (February 2015) apparently offline. Clark Hall, J. R., ed. (1960) [1894]. A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. p.239. ISBN 9780802065483.

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J. R. R. Tolkien adapted the Ubi sunt? passage from The Wanderer for his elegiac Lament of the Rohirrim, an instance of his use of poetry within his prose, in his fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings. [30] Wanderer. Genre: epic song, sometimes described as an “elegy” or lament for things and/or persons lost to death. Is The Wanderer about God? The Wanderer." The Norton Anthology of English Literature. Ed. Julie Reidhead. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2012. 117-118. Print. Hello, I mean possibly? But there is absolutely no evidence of trasnsmission or provenance or date of this poem. Even less for its origins in “pagan” or Christian. First of all, the binary distinction between was absolutely not the experience of the Early English. Practices termed “syncretic” were far more common (as can be attested from grave goods, the exchange of letters in Bede’s Historia at the end of Book One, and the survival of the so-called “Metrical Charms” [which you can see here]) — even modern Xtnty maintains many syncretic practices. Also the need to view OE poetry as “very old” and therefore “pagan” arises out of the nationalist needs of early scholars (Xtnty was Mediterranean, of Jewish origin, and therefore not Volkisch). So that’s a problematic area to get into. One off-shoot of this misconception is that Christian monks somehow “spoiled” the “native spirit” of Germanic poetry. Scholars just don’t view scribes, monks, and poets in such stark & needlessly binary terms. Scholars disagree about the number of speakers represented in the poem, with some contending that there is only one and others believing that in the shift from personal tales to general advice, a new narrator has taken over the poem. Scholars commonly claim that the first seven lines of the poem are an introduction, the Wanderer's monologue begins in line 8, and a new monologue begins in line 92. The second monologue could either be a wise man delivering a new speech by a second speech by the Wanderer himself, who has evolved into a wise man.Ray Anne stiffened slightly. “A purely heterosexual notion, Louise,” she said. “One you might not be familiar with.” And as the Sheriff’s Department patrol car passed slowly down the street, Ray Anne said, “Oh, there’s Deputy Yummy Pants—I’m going to go ask him what’s going on. If I can get past the dog!” Gordon, I.L. (January 1954). "Traditional Themes in the Wanderer and the Seafarer". The Review of English Studies. 5 (17): 1–13. JSTOR 510874. Margo Gelhorn, Paul Hagbolt and Donald Merriam have been friends since High School. Don became an astronaut, and Paul followed him into NASA by using his journalism qualifications to become a publicist for the agency. Margo eventually bestowed her affections on Don and became his fiancee. This left Paul with unrequited feelings for her, although Margo tells Paul that his feelings for Don are "more than brotherly". The three form an odd triangle. Margo herself is manipulative and exploits both Paul and Don to serve her ends. Don is a loner at heart, however. The triangle is set to fly apart. Their collision with the Saucer Symposium provides the trigger.