In the poem “The Seafarer,” the narrator has spent the majority of his life on a ship roaming the sea. The loyalty he has shown has been to his ship. In this case it would be a materialist idol. He refuses to go back to land but later on in the poem you see that he is suffering from being alone and without human interaction. This shows the tragedy of separation that relates this poem to the Anglo-Saxon ideal.
In the poem “The Wife’s Lament,” the narrator’s loyalty is to her husband. Although he is away and his family does not want him to be with her, she still remains loyal and waits for him to return. The poem states, “Grief must always be for him who yearning longs for his beloved.” She longs to be with him and does not worry about anyone else. The tragedies of separation make her grief and suffer from the distance and not being able to be with her husband.
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