importance of the concept of home in the seafarer
Date Submitted: 07/11/2004 08:53:49
"Home is where the heart is" .Discuss in relationship to the seafarer.
This is an interesting concept to apply to The Seafarer, whose narrator seems to feel a sense of belonging whilst travelling the sea despite the fact that he is obviously disillusioned with its hardships .The main character undergoes a transformation in what he considers home and this dramatically affects his life and lifestyle. Towards the end of The Seafarer the poet forces us …
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… a place where we can live a life that will bring us towards heaven, which the poem portrays as our eternal home .The Seafarer is a poem which urges us to think in depth about calls us to carefully "consider where we possess our home, and then think how we com thither."
BIBLIOGRAPHY
01: Mitchell, Bruce and Robinson, Michael A Guide To Old English, fifth edition 1992 , Blackwell Publishers , Oxford .
2: Translation received in lectures (no details)
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