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prompt b: the three poems from the exeter book you read in this unit all deal somehow with the themes of travel and exile. these poems can be interpreted allegorically, meaning that their elements have a significance that goes beyond their literal meaning. what do you think travel and exile symbolize in each of the three poems? explain your interpretation in an essay containing at least five quotes from the poems you read from the exeter book. make sure to base your interpretation on your knowledge of anglo-saxon life and culture.

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Explanation:

First of all you have to know the difference between travel or exile.

As for a trip, it is something we do for fun, vacations or work. But exile is something very different, since it is a situation in which someone has to shed everything they have, money, work, even the family, because of war situations, or because they are persecuting him, or by himself. starting a new life leaving its place of origin behind.

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.

The Seafarer claims that land-dwellers cannot comprehend the pain of spending winter in exile at sea, estranged from one's kinsmen and miserable in the cold. All alone, the Seafarer recounts that all he could hear was the roaring of the sea waves. Sometimes he would pretend that the calls of birds were actually the sounds of fellow sailors, drinking mead and singing songs. Alas, the Seafarer has no companion or earthly protector at sea.

The following edition und translation of the Old English Rhymed Poem, the first resolute metrical experiment in English literature, is prompted by the belief that a sufficiently conserva tive text has not yet been established, and by the fact that no English translation has appeared since Guest's unsatisfactory rendering in his History of English Rhythm in 1838.It is an elegy placed in the mouth of a man who from former happy prosperity has fallen into helpless misery. The change is due to old age, disease, and the fear of death

In The Rhyming Poem, the speaker, apparently a former king who has lost his power, yearns for his past glory as he laments his fallen condition and the changeableness of earthly fortune. The first part of the poem describes the speaker’s happy past, while the second half speaks of his gloomy present condition.