The Text

The Seafarer is the title of an Old English «elegy», written about 850. The first part of the poem discusses the miseries of live at sea. The second part contains moral reflections on the transience of life,.concluding with a prayer. Perhaps this second part is an appendage to an earlier secular poem. Other critics see the whole as an allegorical representation of human life.


The Seafarer

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