The Seafarer is an Old English poem giving a first-person account of a man alone on the sea. The poem consists of 124 lines, followed by the single word...
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Seafarer" (poem), an Old English poem The Seafarers, a short film by Stanley Kubrick The Seafarers (novel), a novel by Nevil Shute Catan: Seafarers, an expansion...
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motif, the ubi sunt formula, the exile theme, the ruin theme, and the journey motif, as also seen in The Seafarer. The "beasts of battle" motif, often...
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River Severn (redirect from The Severn River)
Foron þa up be Temese oþþæt hie gedydon æt Sæferne, þa up be Sæferne. The Seafarer (poem) ..."þæt he a his sæfore sorge næbbe, to hwon hine Dryhten gedon wille...
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"The Ruin" shares the melancholic worldview of some of its contemporary poems such as The Seafarer, The Wanderer and Deor. But unlike "The Wanderer" and other...
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runes. The Old English rune poem, dated to the 8th or 9th century, has stanzas on 29 Anglo-Saxon runes. It stands alongside younger rune poems from Scandinavia...
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magazines. The book includes Pound's interpretation of the Old English poem "The Seafarer". Wilson, Peter. "Ripostes of Ezra Pound". The Literary Encyclopedia...
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as well as the Olivier Award and Evening Standard Award for Best Play. The name of the play links it to the Anglo-Saxon poem The Seafarer. Having recently...
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The Phoenix is an anonymous Old English poem. It is composed of 677 lines and is for the most part a translation and adaptation of the Latin poem De Ave...
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Cædmon's Hymn (redirect from Hymn (poem))
honour of God the Creator. The poem is Cædmon's only known composition. The poem has a claim to being the oldest surviving English poem: if Bede's account...
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occur in The Seafarer, Christ II, and The Wanderer. One particular line from Exodus also appears in The Seafarer: “atol yða gewealc” – “the horrible rolling...
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variously rendered as "The Morning Star", "The Evening Star", "The Vesper", "The Daystar", or "Lucifer") is a narrative poem by Romanian author Mihai...
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Aspidochelone (redirect from The Whale (poem))
words and wit, a poem about a kind of fish, the great sea-monster which is often unwillingly met, terrible and cruel-hearted to seafarers, yea, to every...
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Elegy (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
meditative" and well-known poems such as "The Wanderer", "The Seafarer", and "The Wife's Lament". In those elegies, the narrators use the lyrical "I" to describe...
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Exeter Book (redirect from The Exeter Book)
Juliana The Wanderer The Gifts of Men Precepts The Seafarer Vainglory Widsith The Fortunes of Men Maxims I The Order of the World The Rhyming Poem The Panther...
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English poetry (redirect from Middle English poem)
biblical paraphrase; elegies such as The Wanderer, The Seafarer, and The Ruin (often taken to be a description of the ruins of Bath); and numerous proverbs...
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Sylvia Plath bibliography (redirect from List of Sylvia Plath poems)
1956 Epitaph for Fire and Flower 1956 Battle-Scene from the Comic Operatic Fantasy The Seafarer 1957 Words for a Nursery 1957 Mushrooms 1959 In Plaster...
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which appears in the poem The Seafarer; a similar word was used to refer to terns by the Frisians. The genus contains 13 species. For the "brown-backed terns"...
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"The Husband's Message" is an anonymous Old English poem, 53 lines long and found only on folio 123 of the Exeter Book. The poem is cast as the private...
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The "Battle of Brunanburh" is an Old English poem. It is preserved in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, a historical record of events in Anglo-Saxon England...
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Deor (category Old English poems)
to other melancholy poems in the Exeter Book, such as "The Seafarer" and "The Wanderer". Richard North has argued that the poem was written in about...
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seventh-century Irish poem, also preserved in other manuscripts, is a member of the lorica genre of protective prayers. This instance takes the form of an extended...
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Alliterative verse (redirect from Alliterative poem)
English alliterative poems include some 600 lines of Beowulf, portions of The Seafarer, and a complete translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Tolkien's...
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syntax of his 1911 version of the Anglo-Saxon poem The Seafarer, Pound made an English version of Divus' rendering of the nekuia episode in which Odysseus...
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Eärendil and Elwing (redirect from Eärendil the Mariner)
Half-elven, the children of Men and Elves. He is a great seafarer who, on his brow, carried the Morning Star, a jewel called a Silmaril, across the sky. The jewel...
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Old English literature (category History of literature in the United Kingdom)
The Seafarer is the story of a sombre exile from home on the sea, from which the only hope of redemption is the joy of heaven. Other wisdom poems include...
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Sowilō (rune) (section Rune poems)
present in the earliest inscriptions of the 2nd to 3rd century (Vimose, Kovel). The name is attested for the same rune in all three Rune Poems. It appears...
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is the editorial name given to a five-line Old English poem, supposedly the final words of the Venerable Bede. It is, by far, the Old English poem that...
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Der König in Thule (category 1774 poems)
"Der König in Thule" ("The King in Thule") is a German poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, written in 1774. Goethe wrote the poem "Geistesgruß" as a precursor...
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of Old English poems written in celebration of the deeds and death of Saint Guthlac of Croyland, a popular Mercian saint. The two poems are presented consecutively...
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