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The Elegy: Mourning Life's Transience

Explore the profound sadness of an elegy, a poem mourning death and lost moments. Discover the Anglo-Saxon elegiac mood that laments life's impermanence and fading glory. Dive into the seafaring imagery in "The Seafarer" to ponder the worship of celebrities over heroes and its impact on societal values and role models.

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The Elegy: Mourning Life's Transience

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  1. The Elegy Love can not fill the thickening blood with breath, Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone; Yet many a man is making friends with death Even as I speak, for lack of love alone. ~ Edna St. Vincent Millay

  2. The Elegy • An elegy is a poem that mourns the death of a person or laments something lost.

  3. The Elegy • The dominant mood in Anglo-Saxon poetry is elegiac. • There is a sense of sadness over the grimness and transience of earthly life, which is found in the heroic epic. • It is also found in several Old English fragments and poems in which a bard laments the passing of better days and greater glories.

  4. The Seafarer

  5. Quick Write Do you think we “worship celebrities” today, not heroes? And if we do, what effect does that have on what we value and whom we present to children as a role models? You have 5 minutes to write one paragraph responding to this question.

  6. The Seafarer • The Anglo-Saxons were sea voyagers, and the northern seas were then, as now, especially cruel. • The speaker in “The Seafarer” is an old sailor who drifted through many winters on ice cold seas.

  7. The Middle Heroes Celebrities

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