Question

Which of the following characteristics shows that “The Wife’s Lament” is a fitting example of Anglo-Saxon poetry?

a. a lyric quality
b. a heroic battle
c. a character changing fate
d. a commoner’s rise to glory

Answer 1

it's a lyric quality.

Answer 2

A

Step-by-step explanation:

Initially, lyric meant a song. In literature, the word lyric refers to a short poetic form, which has no restriction of meter. A significant characteristic of the lyric is the expression of personal emotion which tends to take place in the first person mode. Accordingly, "The Wife's Lament" is a fitting example of Anglo-Saxon poetry; the wife transmit feelings of loneliness and despair when she says: "Full of grief, I make this poem about myself, about my own fate".