AngloSaxon Poetry Exercise Lines amp Section Summary TONE attitude amp Imagery Alliteration 17 Even without a home Elegiac sorrowful wintry with wave h elpless and working on on wintry seas With churning oar homeless helpless ID: 604692
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“The Wanderer”
Anglo-Saxon Poetry
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Lines & Section Summary TONE (attitude) & Imagery Alliteration
1-7: Even without a home, Elegiac (sorrowful) wintry, with, wave;
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elpless and working on “. . .on wintry seas / With churning oar homeless, helplessthe ice-covered winter sea, in the icy wave, / Homeless and helpless fled, from, fatethe kindness and comfort he fled from fate.” (3-5) EXPLAIN:of God can come to the The vision of the man alone and cold, man who wanders (is lost). [homeless, helpless—weak and withoutHe is trying to escape his fate, shelter], churning oar—hard labor on but knows of misery, terrible the “wintry seas & icy wave” cold,disasters, and loss of family. unwelcoming waters