Talk:The Wife's Lament

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I have "The Wife's Lament" for a poetry unit, and I was wondering if anyone has any notes or ideas concerning the themes and figurative language of the poem.

I am going to undertake the rewriting of the article from scratch. I had originally thought to incorporate some of the short text of the article as it currently stands, but this largely consists of an unconventional and extremely hypothetical personal reading of the poem, which does not accomodate the variety of disparate perspectives which exist on this text, nor even acknowledge that it is indeed just one among many and various interpretations of the poem. If even it paralleled any given one of the major scholarly readings which exist at present and it cited its source for that reading, it might be useful, but as it is, not much can be made of it, I don't think. --Yst 15:01, 18 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed, I've revised the article with a new discussion of the various schools of thought on its interpretation and problems, and with an examination of some of the less controversial aspects of the poem's narrative, for which a 'conventional' or 'common sense' interpretation may reasonably be asserted. Writing objectively on poetry for which there is no authoritative interpretation is of course a messy business, but this I feel to be a fairly thorough rundown of the possibilities --Yst 18:37, 18 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Nice job. Wish I knew somthing about it to comment but certainly a lot better. Listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Middle Ages/New Articles. --Stbalbach 18:41, 18 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Author?[edit]

It'd be nice to know who wrote this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.132.139.189 (talk) 04:26, 2 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The author is unknown, “The Wife’s Lament” is found in the Exeter Book, a book written by a single, unknown scribe around 950 A.D. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.219.165.43 (talk) 01:18, 15 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]