Similarities Of "The Wanderer" and "The Wife's Lament"

“The Wanderer” and “The wife’s Lament” are quit alike because they have similar problems. At the same time both of the poems are Different to each other. “The Wanderer” loss his lord, and his on a search of a new lord. On the “The Wife’s Lament” poem she loss her Lord or in other words her husband. The only difference to “The Wanderer” is that the speaker in “The Wife’s Lament” is a woman”. The wife and the wanderer were both exile and had to live away form there homes or town. Therefore, these two poems are both the similar to each other because they have the same problem, but the difference between these two poems can be that on “The Wanderer” is a man and the other poems “The Wife’s Lament” is a woman.
This paragraph is going to be about “The Wanderer” and “The wife’s Lament” poems. Therefore, the wanderer misses his lord, and he all so mention how he use to help him on the old days he really love is lord that much.
He who has had long forgo the counsel of a beloved lord knows indeed how, when sorrow and sleep together bind the poor dweller-alone, it will seem to him in his mind that he is embracing and kissing his liege lord and laying his hand and his head on his knee, as it some times was in the old days when he took part of gift-giving […]. (lines 24-29)
The wife that was left alone is thinking were could her lord be she tells . . . read more.

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