English Literature / Unit 3 ENL 0213 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Wanderer and the Elegy
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The idea
The Wanderer, from the Exeter Book, is spoken by an exile who has buried his lord and seeks another. It asks the "where is" question of loss: "Where has the horse gone? Where is the man?" The poem opens and closes on Christian consolation and is classed as an elegy.
In practice
An exile asking where everything went.
Where people slip
A Christian frame around pagan grief.
Your place on the trail
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