Seafarer
What makes the sailor keep going back to the sea
An inner need to return
The Wanderer's view of life is generally
Fatalistic (accepting fate, or whatever happens happens)
Who sent the wife to her cold, dark hole under the tree
Her lord (husband)
What the man in the dream asks Caedmon to do, and why he resists
Sing, but he knew nothing of poetry and didn't know how to sing
The king's greatest quality, illustrated by the lesson he learns in the story
Humility
The seafarer's pessimistic view of life
fate brings illness, age and decay each day
The first half of the poem suggests that the Wanderer's emotional state is
Agonized silence
What the kinsmen do to the wife
Plot to divide her and her husband
What Caedmon sang about
the creation of Heaven and earth
What the King gave the Bishop
A beautiful, expensive horse
How the Seafarer sees the world has changed
It has lost its former glory
Like the Seafarer, the Wanderer also recognizes that earthly things are
Fleeting (Fame, fortune, and life itself)
peace-weaver (define)
The source of Caedmon's ability to turn scripture into music once he awoke
God
What the Bishop did with his gift
Gave it to a beggar
What most imagery at the beginning of the poem refers to
Coldness and winter
The Wanderer most keenly feels the loss of his lord when
He imagines kneeling in front of his throne
Why does the Wife seem to wish her husband ill at the end of the poem?
Her relationship with him has led to her living in an earth cave in exile
Why this story was included in the Church's History
It's good PR--might inspire people to be better Christians and use their God-given talents
How the Bishop explained giving the gift away
"Is this foal of a mare more valuable to you than this child of God?"
What the seafarer has learned about earthly things
worldly glory and power vanish
What most likely happened to the Wanderer to put him in an exiled state
His people were all killed, probably in war or a feud
The coping mechanism at the end of the Seafarer's and Wanderer's poems that the Wife seems to be lacking
Faith in God
One historical fact this story conveys about the time
Monasteries were centers of learning
The moral of the tale
Every human life is more valuable than any material objects