The Wife's Lament

GPTKB entity

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:Old_English
gptkbp:contains gptkb:Exeter_Book
gptkbp:countryOfOrigin gptkb:England
gptkbp:dateWritten 10th century
gptkbp:debatedBy genre classification
interpretation of ending
narrator's identity
gptkbp:firstPublished gptkb:Exeter_Book
gptkbp:form verse
gptkbp:genre elegy
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label The Wife's Lament
gptkbp:language gptkb:Old_English
gptkbp:length short poem
gptkbp:line 53
gptkbp:manuscript gptkb:Exeter_Book
gptkbp:narrator unnamed woman
gptkbp:preservedIn gptkb:Exeter_Book
gptkbp:setting gptkb:forest
gptkb:cave
earth-hall
gptkbp:studiedIn gptkb:Old_English
feminist literary criticism
medieval studies
gptkbp:subject social isolation
female perspective
emotional suffering
marital separation
gptkbp:theme betrayal
exile
loss
love
loneliness
sorrow
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Exeter_Book
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6