What are the "fates of men" according to the poem "The Wanderer"?what does he mean

According to the speaker in the poem "The Wanderer", the
fates of men is death. The entire poem speaks to the fact that the Wanderer is left in
isolation given all of those he has known are dead.

The
Wanderer searches the sea for anyone who knows of his lands or people, "wished to
console the friendless one", or entertain him.  The Wanderer realizes that nothing on
earth will ever remain constant. Death is inevitable.

In
the end, the Wanderer realizes that the only thing that can remain (and is more powerful
than death) is ones faith. At the close of the poem, the Wanderer seems to have come to
terms that he, too, must surrender to the fate of man- death. The only thing which helps
the Wanderer to accept this fate is the promise that his faith is
immortal.