The author of “The Wanderer” utilizes an abundance of descriptive language throughout the poem to further involve the reader and enhance the poem 's liveliness. Adjectives such as “melancholy,” “downcast,” and “wretched” are but a few of the words that breathe life into this poem. For instance, as the speaker is describing the sorrows of dreaming of his lord and kinsmen, only to wake up to a harsh reality, he states, “Then the warrior, friendless, awakens again” (45). Here, the notion that the speaker is in fact friendless being reiterated is curiously a striking example of the unique and descriptive rhetoric that is such a compelling characteristic of “The Wanderer.” As is true for any poem, without the use of such eloquent words, “The Wanderer”, would seem a great deal less
The author of “The Wanderer” utilizes an abundance of descriptive language throughout the poem to further involve the reader and enhance the poem 's liveliness. Adjectives such as “melancholy,” “downcast,” and “wretched” are but a few of the words that breathe life into this poem. For instance, as the speaker is describing the sorrows of dreaming of his lord and kinsmen, only to wake up to a harsh reality, he states, “Then the warrior, friendless, awakens again” (45). Here, the notion that the speaker is in fact friendless being reiterated is curiously a striking example of the unique and descriptive rhetoric that is such a compelling characteristic of “The Wanderer.” As is true for any poem, without the use of such eloquent words, “The Wanderer”, would seem a great deal less