Seafarer Essay

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English 12 name__________________________________ “The Seafarer” 1. Why does the speaker begin the poem by saying that the tale is true and about him? To make it know to the readers, to set the tone/mood 2. How does the mood in the first few lines reflect Anglo-Saxon society and values? They take pride and value in telling their stories. They don’t “sugar coat” things. He tells his story as it is. 3. What literary device is used in lines 9 and 28? Assonance 4. How does the first stanza compare to the following three? The author is talking about himself in all three stanzas. 5. In what line does the poem change direction? Line 39 6. Summarize lines 96-102. They burry the Anglo Saxon with gold and pile treasures on his burial site. The soul can't preserve the gold before the fear of God, "you can't take it with you." You can't keep your material possessions with you after you die. You might be able to hide the gold while you're alive, but you can't hide your greed from God. The gold that the soul attempts to "preserve" and "hide" becomes linked to sin because of the fact that gold is fully revealed to God after death, just like sins are. 7. What five things does the speaker suggest mankind should do? “To carry him courage and strength and belief, A man must conquer pride not kill it, be firm with his fellows, chaste for himself, treat all the world as the world deserves, with love or with hate but never with harm.” 8. The sea in this poem is used as a conceit, which is a complex, extended metaphor that is developed throughout the piece. How does the sea function both literally and figuratively in the poem? The sea functions as his feelings and emotions and also as an actual sea because he was a seafarer. 9. What is the conflict of this poem? Is this an internal or external conflict? Internal conflict, the seafarer is
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