Both the wandererThe Wanderer and the seafarerThe Seafarer are elegies and are written descriptivedescriptively, which is quite common for poems in general, but specificalthey are specific elegies sincebecause the characters in these stories dare to talk about the unthinkable.

Throughout the wandererThe Wanderer and the seafarerThe Seafarer, the narrators talk about therethe loss of their fellow men and lords and their subsequent grief, when. When they are not telling their story of the past, they seek wisdom and peace through self-reflection. In the story of the seafarerpoem The Seafarer, this is all done by one narrator. But, in fact, this could also be the same person, butonly older and wiser than before.

The narrators of both poems also have a lot in common. They both are solitary speakers and talk about the decaying material world in a melancholy tone, and both want to find peace and security through religion. Solitary speakers are more focused on themselves rather than others. They tell their stories likeas though they are the only ones existingwho exist.

There is one difference between the storiespoems. The seafarerSeafarer has an alliterizealliterized rhyme scheme. While the wandererThe Wanderer isn’t written in a special way.

As for the theme, which is in both poemspoems it is obvious. The narrators of both stories talk about how the world is a mess and what they are losing. Therefore, the theme should be the “decaying material world”. SinceBecause the writing style of the story is descriptive, the theme becomes easier to recognize. The story is writingwritten quite sadsadly and somber, and by combining this with the sadness oof the story selfitself, it makes the theme quite strong.