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- Mr. Dalton
- Mr. Dalton is an instructor in the Upper School at Beaufort Academy. He is inept at car repair and home or lawn maintanance of any sort, but is an accomplished philosopher. In his spare time he enjoys throwing darts while listening to old Duran Duran cassettes.
Today is Wednesday.
ReplyDelete4. The poem shows me that marriage was a bond, like today, where they actually cared about one another due to the fact that she’s mourning to be with him and that she thinks he is mourning too. It also shows that a woman’s’ role was to be by her husband’s side due to their bond forever.
ReplyDelete#4. Anglo-Saxon bonds of kinship are shown as everlasting links between people. The speaker's depression due to the breakage of this bond is an indicator of the belief that marriage is meant to last forever. Therefore, it is shown that loyalty to this commitment is self-evident in their culture. To end the poem, the speaker informs the reader of the gender role a man must follow in everyday life,and the yearning he has for his beloved. She is consequently saying that the role of the women was to provide a sense of comfort and relief for the men.
ReplyDelete4. This poem shows that Anglo-Saxon bonds of kinship, especially that between husband and wife, should be everlasting and it is important not to break them or great misery will follow. The wife is inconsolable after her husband departs ("a friendless exile in my lonely plight"). There is no meaning left for her with her husband gone, but she remains loyal to him.
ReplyDelete4. The Anglo-Saxon bonds of kinship were inseverable to the devoted. The speaker in the poem remains loyal to her lord despite experiencing immense grief. She endures an unsuccessful marriage(?), is exiled into a grave-like home, and still feelings remain stagnant. You can extract from this reading that to remain loyal is worth the worst of hardships of life. The role of women in expressed in "The Wife's Lament" shows the concrete loyalty of the wife and loyal 'servant' and what actions that belief entails. When a woman devotes herself to a man there is no time when she shouldn't act like he is her whole world.
ReplyDelete4. The bonds between Anglo-Saxon families were believed to be everlasting,and to break them would mean that a sort of curse would befall you and your family. If one of the people in a relationship left, then the remaining partner would be miserable because of said "curse." In the poem, an example of this can be seen when the husband leaves his wife, and she ends up being horribly miserable, but in the end, she is still loyal to him because of the everlasting bonds they shared through their marriage.
ReplyDeletethe insights that the poem gives me about anglo-saxon bonds are that marriage back then was nearly the same as it is today. the speaker states that she and her husband 'had vowed fullmany a time that nought should come between us but death alone..." this is like our modern "till death do us part". it also shows the reader great loyalty that the wives had for the husbands. when the speaker says that her husband was exiled, she does not forget about him and find a new mate, but rather she hides in the forest waiting for his possible return. the role of weomen, it seems from the text,is that they are to love their husband and stay loyal no matter what. "the absence of my lord comes sharply to me...for i can never contrive to rest my careworn heart."
ReplyDeleteThis poem reveals that Anglo-Saxons, like todays western heritage, valued a steady and commited relationship, in both marraiges and freidships. The role of women however, was on that did not question orders from their lords or masters, even so much as to obey them after their deaths.
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