The Ruin | This 1,000-Year-Old Poem About Collapse Feels Uncomfortably Modern
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The Ruin is one of the most haunting poems preserved in the Exeter Book. In this Old English elegy, a speaker contemplates the crumbling remains of a once-glorious Roman city, meditating on time, decay, craftsmanship, and the fragility of empire.
This video explores:
The historical context of the Exeter Book
The Roman ruins likely referenced in the poem
The elegiac tone and theme of transience
Anglo-Saxon imagination confronting a lost civilization
How stone becomes memory
More than a description of architecture, The Ruin becomes a meditation on impermanence. Walls fall. Water endures. Empires fade. Language remembers.
Useful for readers of Old English literature and NET/SET preparation.
Literature. No BS.
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The Long Way Home by Alex-Productions | https://onsound.eu/
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