Analyzing S. A. J Bradley's 'Seafarer'

When displaced from society, loneliness becomes obvious within a person. In the poem “The Seafarer” translated by S.A.J Bradley, it expresses a mournful and forlorn mood. Throughout this poem, it shows massive passion and emotion. There is also the idea of hardship, loneliness and uncertainty that the speaker shows in the poem.
The narrator of this poem shows a sense of home when he gives his readers a description of his life and previous pre-seafaring days. He leaves his old life for some unspecified reason, telling us that he was "cut off from his kinsmen", and he talks about this with a definite sense of regret and loss. The narrator returns to life at sea, because of the fact that his “heart would begin to beat” again as soon as the waves begin to toss him. This gives an image of death while he was living on land. He feels much safer when he is at sea. In lines 36-38, the speaker says “The time for journeys would come and my soul called me eagerly out, sent me over the horizon, seeking foreigners homes”. This means that the speaker’s soul causes him to return back to the sea in order for him to experience the excitement of seeing the homes of various foreign lands. Another important reason why the narrator decides to return back to the sea

In lines 64-66 he say “thus the joys of god are fervent with life, where life itself fades quickly into the earth”. He says this because he believes that the ocean is the only place