Isolation In The Anglo Saxon Lover's Poem
Human beings by nature are social creatures, physically and emotionally. Like all things, they come and go;and, this will leave them at one point or another all alone, isolated from the rest. A timeless truth, we can find ourselves in at one point in our lives. Isolation being detached or exclude from the rest is known in ancient time a punishment that is worse than death because it is like being the dead among the living. for example The anglo-saxon wife's lament . this poem is about a wife who is exiled by her husband. The author uses figurative language, such as imagery, caesura, and personification to convey the sense of isolation by setting the mood,tone,and symbolic meaning. One of the first figurative language, we can see are the breaks or pauses in the middle of the line known as caesura. The author use these caesuras to symbolically show the
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For example the first stanza, lines 1 through 5, tell of her first heartbreak from her husband. the caesura puts expression of sadness,sorrow, and grief. As well, in the fifth line states right out “my exile”.
For example the first stanza, lines 1 through 5, tell of her first heartbreak from her husband. the caesura puts expression of sadness,sorrow, and grief. As well, in the fifth line states right out “my exile”.