An Outline This essay is an attempt to gather some information about early Anglo-Saxon poetry, highlighting some present aspects also repeated in other texts produced… Continue a ler »A Few Thoughts on The Inherent Burdensomeness of a Wise Man
“The Wanderer” paints a melancholy picture of nostalgia and a painful existence in a world where social classes are set in stone, but not only… Continue a ler »We Still Wander
Melancholy is a manifestation of sorrow that is inherent to human beings, and this has made this feeling appear in poems and songs for centuries.… Continue a ler »From the Anglo-Saxons to Gorillaz: an analysis of melancholy and its timelessness
To live in a world where one feels lost is, by no means, to live at all. This sentiment is perfectly described in the Anglo-Saxon… Continue a ler »There’s beauty in pain: an essay about “The Wanderer”
At some point along the end of the tenth century, a poem entitled “The Wanderer” was written by an anonymous writer in Old English, an… Continue a ler »A comparative analysis between the Old English poem “The Wanderer” and Hozier’s song “All Things End”: the elegy now and then
“The Wanderer” is an Old English Poem that conveys an elegiac mood as it follows the meditations of an exiled warrior towards his past life,… Continue a ler »Echoes of Exile: the impacts of isolation conveyed in “The Wanderer” emerging through Taylor Swift’s songwriting