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Seafarer (Poem)Among the most interesting poems included in The Exeter Book are The Wanderer and The Seafarer, poems in which a first-person speaker tells of his exile and solitude. These poems can be considered elegies; in fact the writer tends to contrast the hard times of the present with evocation of a glorious past: memory becomes a source of consolation. The Seafarer is a highly singular 124 line poem that deals with the experience of an outsider. Indeed the poet's condition of exile has many parallels with the modern idea of the artist's estrangement from society. It begins with a lament of suffering until the speaker understand that he prefers to live a life of hardship on the waves rather than having securiy of land that he considers an pointless vanity.
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