The Seafarer And The Widow's Lament

The foundations of British literature are shown through powerful words, conveying emotions, displaying the relationship between how the characters in the poems, The Seafarer, The Wanderer, and The Widow’s Lament feel about the setting and the idea that one of their most important values is fate and devotion to God, which directly relates to the early British epic Beowulf and to Bede’s A History of the English Church and People. The Seafarer, one of the origins of British tradition, is reflected in both the place of where the poem takes and there relationship and emotion to the place and the values at this time. The sea is the main setting of where The Seafarer takes place and it reflects the values and the people at this time the poem explains

The poem takes place during a bloody death-ridden battle by the sea and on the sea the both setting and emotion show their values and relationship with the time period during when the novel took place. The poem states the place as “Cometh God’s pity, compassionate love, though woefully toiling on wintry with churning oar in an icy wave, Homeless and helpless he fled from fate. Thus saith the wanderer mindful of misery grievous disasters, and kin of death” (The Wanderer line 27). The passage from the poem shows how the place inflicts with the emotions of the people it shows that having compassion love for no matter helpless or homeless you will be ok and they see the gruesome battle and the people think of war as a death pool full of people who are faithful to God there values in the poem and the people at this time is they think of war as a miserable thing that kills the innocent worshipers that have faith in

The Widow’s Lament takes place in a hole that a widower was put in because she was prohibited from watching her see if her husband who was a war was going to come back. The poem uses both emotion and place to describe what the people’s values are and again their emotions about the place. The poem characterizes the setting as “Be he outlawed far in a strange folk-land that my beloved under a rock cliff rimed with frost” (The Widow’s Lament line 31). The words of the people from the poem show that the place is dreary and miserable without her husband because of the war and her loathing for her husband is high like the rock cliff, but cold and disappearing like the frost around it the values of the people of this time is love and