Exeter Book

The Wanderer

What modern parallels do you see in this poem?

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The Wanderer speaks to the impermanence of things while describing ruins and the destruction of other manmade artifacts. This is still relevant today. Everything we buy and build is still impermanent. Our own bodies are impermanent.

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