The exiles of the three speakers in The Exeter Book poems are similar in that each reflects on how their lives have turned out. In The Seafarer, a man decides to live at sea and faces loneliness and harsh weather. In Peredur, a prince decides to live like a commoner and faces betrayal by his friend. In The Dream of Rhonabwy, a poet dreams he is exiled with others and faces despair when they find no one will join them. 2. All the exiles in the poems want to return home, but none can until Arthur becomes king. Even then, they cannot go home peacefully because all would be rejected by their families. Only the speaker in The Dream of Rhonabwy is happy in exile; he does not long for home but for poetry and music which exist only in dreamland. 3. It seems the poets' exiles were not too terrible since none of them seems to have been unhappy in them. The Dream of Rhonabwy's speaker is the only one who is satisfied with his life in exile, which probably means it was not so bad after all!