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The Seafarer (poem)
''The Seafarer'' is an Old English poem giving a first-person account of a man alone on the sea. The poem consists of 124 lines, followed by the single word "Amen" and is recorded only in the Exeter Book, one of the four surviving manuscripts of Old English poetry. It has most often been categorised as an elegy, a poetic genre common in Old English.
== Summary ==
The poem is told from the point of view of an old seafarer, who is reminiscing and evaluating his life as he has lived it. The seafarer describes the desolate hardships of life on the wintry sea.〔lines 1-33a〕 He describes the anxious feelings, cold-wetness, and solitude of the sea voyage in contrast to life on land where men are surrounded by kinsmen, free from dangers, and full on food and wine. The climate on land then begins to resemble that of the wintry sea, and the speaker shifts his tone from the dreariness of the winter voyage and begins to describe his yearning for the sea.〔lines 33b-66a〕 Time passes through the seasons from winter — “it snowed from the north”〔line 31b〕 — to spring — “groves assume blossoms”〔line 48a〕 — and to summer — “the cuckoo forebodes, or forewarns”.〔line 53a〕
Then the speaker again shifts, this time not in tone, but in subject matter. The sea is no longer explicitly mentioned; instead the speaker preaches about steering a steadfast path to heaven. He asserts that “earthly happiness will not endure",〔line 67〕 that men must oppose “the devil with brave deeds”,〔line 76〕 and that earthly wealth cannot travel to the afterlife nor can it benefit the soul after a man's death.〔lines 97-102〕
The poem ends with a series of gnomic statements about God,〔lines 101-108, 115-116, 121-124〕 eternity,〔lines 106-7, 117-122a〕 and self-control.〔lines 106-112, 118-120〕 The poem then ends with the single word "Amen".〔line 125〕
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