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‘The Wife’s Lament’ by Anonymous is a multi-layered poem in which a speaker expresses her deep sorrow over her husband’s departure. Depending on how one interprets the poem, that departure might refer to his death, his betrayal of her, or his travels to another country.
Analysis: "The Wife's Lament" is one of the most recognizable Anglo-Saxon elegies. Some scholars actually classify the piece as a Frauenlied, which is the German term for a woman's song.
18 Ιουν 2020 · The Wife’s Lament (the title is modern, not original) is a haunting and justly well-known poem, though difficulties of translation and interpretation make some aspects of it a mystery.
12 Αυγ 2020 · As a lyric poem, The Wife’s Lament is more profitably approached through its non-narrative elements, especially metaphor and intertextuality. Two major metaphors control The Wife’s Lament : “Wife as exiled retainer”—currently uncontroversial—and “Wife as seer from beyond the grave.”
15 Ιουν 2020 · Based on the information in the poem itself, why was the wife forced to live in a cave? What are the possible reasons? Why does the poem contain so much deliberate ambiguity?
The poem, a monologue, records the lament of an exiled wife. Lines 1-5 establish the tone and theme of the poem, as the wife describes her exiled state and sorrowful mood.
24 Σεπ 2006 · The Wife's Lament By John D. Niles The poem known as The Wife's Lament has long been admired as one of the most evocative poems of Old English literature. It is also regarded as one of the most problematic.1 Here I wish to address one noteworthy problem associated with that poem: namely, how to construe a passage of ten and a half lines at the
