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A 3 page essay that comments on a medieval Anglo-Saxon poem. The European world changed greatly during the Middle Ages, both physically and spiritually. While some individuals were able to accept the precepts of Christianity easily, others experienced emotional turmoil over the changes that advancing Christianity brought, which included the destruction of cherished cultural values, such as the mead-hall and having primary allegiance to the clan ruler. The Wanderer is a medieval text in which the author explores the spiritual changes he is undergoing. To describe this spiritual transformation in concrete terms, the poet uses the physical world allegorically in order to describe his spiritual journey. No additional sources cited.
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over the changes that advancing Christianity brought, which included the destruction of cherished cultural values, such as the mead-hall and having primary allegiance to the clan ruler. The Wanderer is
a medieval text in which the author explores the spiritual changes he is undergoing. To describe this spiritual transformation in concrete terms, the poet uses the physical world allegorically in
order to describe his spiritual journey. In the first stanzas of this Anglo-Saxon poem, the author establishes the speaker as a wanderer, an exiled man, who is forced to
leave his homeland and all that he finds familiar and journey along icy waterways and the "paths of exile" (4a). The pagan world was being destroyed. The poet speaks of
"hardships,/of fierce slaughters/and the downfall of kinsmen" (4a). The devastation of his society leaves the wanderer spiritually adrift and isolated, unable to speak of his innermost thoughts to anyone (12a).
He tells of how "long years ago," he "hid my lord/in the darkness of he earth" (20a). As this indicates, the death and burial of his liege lord was
the event that prompted his extended exile. The spiritual significance of this event was that the poet had to relinquish his previous faith in his old cultural paradigms and associated
pagan gods. He no longer has a "hall" and "a giver of treasure" (24a). To understand the mans dilemma consider what it means to the modern individual to be without
a job, that is, to have no viable means of support. However, the poets situation goes beyond material wealth, as he also has no place where he fits in; where
he shares camaraderie and a sense of belonging. As to where his comrades have gone, the poet comments that "War took off some" and other deaths he attributes to
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