Test 1: The Searfarer & The Wanderer Flashcards
assigned; committed
consigned
the repetition of consonant sounds in successive words
alliteration
dwelling places; residences
habitations
traveling storytellers (bards, minstrels) who memorized and passed along an oral tradition of stories and songs, usually celebrating the deeds of a hero
scops
trivial; unimportant
trifling
central to the Anglo-Saxon tribe’s community and social life
mead-hall
a sustained, formal poem that mourns the loss of someone or something; a lament or sadly meditative poem on a solemn theme
elegy
deprived of or lacking
bereft
someone or something that indicates what is to come; a forerunner
harbinger
merriment; amusement
mirth
a figure of speech in which someone (usually absent), an abstract quality, or a non-existent personage is addressed as though present
apostrophe
to praise enthusiastically; to exalt
extol
the repetition of a word or words at the beginning of two or more lines, phrases, or clauses
anaphora
lonely; empty; abandoned
desolate
great waves or surges of water
billows
brave and persistent
doughty
a two-word metaphoric word or phrase that takes the place of a noun; example: “whale-road” for sea
kenning
chains; restricts
fetters
a profoundly wise man
sage
the particular words used in a work; word choice
diction
pale; weak
wan
presented; conferred
bestowed
to feel or show fear or apprehension
quail
a poem that expresses the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker
lyric
characteristic of the Germanic mind
brooding melancholy
“the Wanderer” is a lyrical expression of a ___ who has lost his lord, his kinsmen, and his friend in a disastrous war.
warrior or bard
the beginning in England of a literature of the sea
“The Seafarer,” “The Wanderer,” and voyages in Beowulf
The Seafarer reminds us that the Anglo-Saxons were originally ___.
Vikings
narrator and the Wanderer
speakers in the poem
“sea-way”; “whale-path”; “giver of gold”
kennings
He imagines hearing the “laughter of men.” He actually hears the “gannet’s cry,” the “kittiwakes chatter,” and the “call of the sea-mews.”
contrast
a broad them for “The Seafarer”
exile
Not ever-hot in his heart, nor over-swift in his speech; / Nor faint of soul nor secure, nor fain for the fight nor afraid
some characteristics of a sage
what makes life so uncertain and “wrenches the soul away”
violence, age, disease
“in every sooth I know / Excellent is it in man that his breast he straightly bind, / Shut fast his thinking in silence, whatever he have in his mind. / The man that is weary in heart, he never can fate withstand; / The man that grieves in his spirit, he finds not the helper’s hand.” is an example of
“self-reliant pagan stoicism”
“This garment of flesh has no power, when the spirit escapes, / To drink in the sweet nor to taste of the bitter; it then / Has no power to stretch forth the hands or to think with the mind.” these lines are implications of ___.
death
meant everything to a Germanic tribesman
social ties
setting in “the Seafarer”
“the shadows of night became darker”; “it snowed from the North”; “The world was enchained by frost”; “hail fell upon the earth”
