22+ The Wanderer Poem Summary Background. The wanderer is more complex than poems such as the ruin precisely because of its incorporation of christian attitudes and values,5 although there are the wanderer is exhorted to leave behind the things and cares of the world (as the poem leaves behind the older, more deeply entrenched view of. He cannot avoid going to sea, however, because this life is his fate.
The wanderer goes on to recall the hardships he has faced in his life, like watching his kinsmen be ruined.
It is about some dude who wanders around a lot. I find that the poem is so confusing, i don't even understand it. Old english heroic poetry was handed down orally from. The elegiac poem was written as a remembrance where a happy past strongly contradicts unhappy present.