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What are three quotes in the poem "The Wanderer" that show isolation?

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1. “Often the lone-dweller awaits his own favor, the Measurer's mercy, though he must, mind-caring, throughout the ocean's way stir the rime-chilled sea with his hands for a long while, tread the tracks of exile— the way of the world is ever an open book.”

2. "Often alone, every daybreak, I must

bewail my cares. There is now no one living

to whom I dare articulate my mind’s grasp."

3. "just as I must fasten in fetters my heart’s ken, often wretched, deprived of my homeland, far from freeborn kindred"

Step-by-step explanation:

"The Wanderer" is an old English poem, where the speaker is isolated, lonely and sad about this situation. The poem deals a lot with the theme of loneliness where the speaker rambles about the days when he was young and has the company of family and loved ones that left him happy and satisfied, but this is a happiness that has passed and that no longer exists more in his life. Now, alone, the speaker regrets and misses everything that he lived and that he no longer has access to.

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