| A | B |
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| Title | The Seafarer |
| Author | anonymous; unknown |
| Literary focus | elegy- a poem that mourns the death of a person or laments something lost |
| Characters | old sailor who has drifted thru many winters on ice-cold seas of life |
| theme | some feel it is an ALLeGORY about the journey(suffering) of life |
| terns | seabirds related to gulls |
| admonish | scold mildly |
| ravenous | very hungry |
| fervent | passionate |
| rancor | ill will |
| blanch | turn pale |
| funeral pyre | pile of wood on which dead body is burned |
| setting | the sea |
| time period | uncertain date; discovered in Exeter Book |
| Exeter Book | one of four important collections of Anglo-Saxon poetry |
| Exeter | city in southwest England |
