Sharon Creech Essays
Ubi Sunt Qui Ante Nos Fueront? – Transience in Old English literature College
The Wanderer
The ‘ubi sunt’ topos is a powerful Christian homiletic motif which poses the question “where are those who went before us?”. The motif functions in a similar way to the Horatian emphasis on ‘eheu fugaces’, stating that everything is destined to...
The Interconnected Journeys of Mind, Body and Soul in the Exeter Book Elegies College
The Wanderer
Perhaps unsurprisingly given the title it is now most famously known by, The Wanderer is a poem that operates as a journey on numerous levels; there is – of course – the physical journey of the solitary man as he navigates his way through an...