What does the ICE symbolize? Almost surely death, although ice / cold / frost could also reflect the eponymous seafarer's loneliness and pain.
What does the CUCKOO symbolize? Why, summer, of course; weren't you listening? In England the sound of the first cuckoo is, in folklore, the surest sign of the first day of summer. For the sailor, the cuckoo would also symbolize a life of ease on land and among green, growing things during warm days.
"The wealth / Of the world neither reaches to Heaven nor remains." Do some serious thinking about this one; certainly your instructor talked about it and urged you to take notes.
What is the ROMAN connection to the seafarer's sense of elegy?
And what is an ELEGY?
How doe CHRISTIANITY and the concept of the WYRD, or fate, conflict with each other?
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