importance of the concept of home in the seafarer

"Home is where the heart is" .Discuss in relationship to the seafarer. This is an interesting concept to apply to The Seafarer, whose narrator seems to feel a sense of belonging whilst travelling the sea despite the fact that he is obviously disillusioned with its hardships .The main character undergoes a transformation in what he considers home and this dramatically affects his life and lifestyle. Towards the end of The Seafarer the poet forces us …

… a place where we can live a life that will bring us towards heaven, which the poem portrays as our eternal home .The Seafarer is a poem which urges us to think in depth about calls us to carefully "consider where we possess our home, and then think how we com thither." BIBLIOGRAPHY 01: Mitchell, Bruce and Robinson, Michael A Guide To Old English, fifth edition 1992 , Blackwell Publishers , Oxford . 2: Translation received in lectures (no details)