The Wife's Lament Themes

A common trope in the literature of the day, as found in other Exeter Book poems like "The Wanderer," "The Wife's Lament" takes on the lighthearted theme of exile. Okay, so maybe it's not so lighth...

No matter how you interpret "The Wife's Lament," it's hard to ignore the themes of love, and love lost, that appear throughout the poem. Let's be real: it's a poem about heartbreak. So, whether you...

Take a look at the Old English word, "geomor." It means "sad." Get ready, because you'll be seeing that word a lot. Most critics classify "The Wife's Lament" as an elegy, a popular genre of poetry...

Though we can't be sure about the gender of the writer, we know for sure that the speaker in "The Wife's Lament" is a woman. The fact that this poem is written from a woman's perspective is extreme...