The Seafarer

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Images at the beginning of the poem

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coldness

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Speaker's feelings for the sea

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Respectful and fascinated

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Tone describing earlier times

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Nostalgic - speaks with longing

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World's current state

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Without honour and glory

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Speaker's thoughts on death

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Believes he will die at sea

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The Seafarer - Not an elegy:

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speaker begs God's forgiveness

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Life lessons from the speaker

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Worldly glory and power vanish

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"summer's sentinel" = cuckoo

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Example of a kenning

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First part of 'The Seafarer'

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A man's life on the sea

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Historical context in Anglo-Saxon poetry

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Clues about the time period