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Shimonaga Yuki
Department Undergraduate School , School of Agriculture Position Associate Professor |
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| Language | Japanese |
| Publication Date | 2024/03 |
| Type | Academic Journal |
| Peer Review | Peer reviewed |
| Title | On the Poet's Professional Awareness VIsible through the Wording of The Wanderer |
| Contribution Type | Sole-authored |
| Journal | Asterisk |
| Journal Type | Japan |
| Publisher | The English Philological Society of Japan |
| Volume, Issue, Page | 32,pp.1-15 |
| Details | The Wanderer is regarded as one of the elegies, but a close comparative study of it with the patristic and biblical literature brings into perspective that the sorrow is not in its thematic center. The Wanderer-poet repeats the importance of a wise man reaching a total understanding of the challenging situation in which he is standing. The total understanding is what þa bote means, and it was the poet's preoccupation. The poem echoes the philosophy sung in Psalm 49.
The poet, shedding new light on understanding worldly things, seems to have been trying to follow the patristic as well as the psalm traditions. He emphasizes the presence of þa bote, with the help of which people can praise God in times of hardship. The enigmatic phrase æt rune and other phrases should be re-read in light of the Christian literary tradition. |