Additionally, the speaker further emphasizes the wanderer’s loneliness by describing the other losses he suffered. Now, they’re aimlessly seeking out a new “lord” while mourning the old and all the warm memories along with that time. This person is separate from their “lord,” the person around whom they structured their life. The speaker in this piece is well acquainted with sorrow and describes a “wanderer” experiences with it. These themes are quite common within the best-known Anglo-Saxon verse. The anonymous writer of ‘The Wanderer’ engages with themes of loneliness, suffering, and religion in the text. At the end of the poem, the speaker focuses on what he sees as the only true solution for sorrow-God. But that’s not enough to relieve him of his unhappiness. One of the upsides of having experienced many sorrows and winters is that he has knowledge that only the elderly and other wanderers possess. But, just as he starts to feel a bit of his sorrow lift, he’s reminded of all he’s lost. As he travels, he has brief moments of peace as well as some nice dreams. Now, he’s seeking out a new life but can’t escape the memories of the old one. He’s lost his lord, his home, his kinsmen, and more. In the first parts of this piece, the speaker describes a wanderer, someone who lost everything that meant something to him. ‘The Wanderer’ is a long Old English poem in which the speaker details the life and struggles of a wanderer.