Sea Fever Essay -- English Literature

ocean pyrexia - speechGood morning Miss Allison and class, the poetry I chose is Sea Fever byJohn Masefield. John Masefield, was only 22 age old when he wrotethe simple yet moving lines in his poem Sea Fever. He was born in1878, in, England. Young Masefield wanted to be a merchant marineofficer and at 13 he fatigued two and a half years on the school mail andafterwards was apprenticed aboard a soaring ship, bound for Chile. InChile he became ill and left the ocean and returned to England. In 1902Masefield produce his first volume of poems, Salt-Water BalladsJohn Masefields poem Sea Fever is a work of art that brings beautyto the position language through its character of rhythm, imagery and pieceycomplex figures of speech. Sea Fever is a classic, English poem aboutthe poets strong hunger to return to the sea. It is a description ofa man who reflects on what his life used to be like when he was asailor. In Stanza one, the man yearns to be sailing the oceans onceagain. He rem embers the retirement and the natural environment aroundhim, such as the sky, with its stars to guide him in the rightdirection, as well as the wind that made his ship shake and its sailto billow. He overly recalls the grey mist of the ocean. In stanza two,the man describes his yearning in stronger terms, when he describesthe tide of the ocean as a clear call that whitethorn not be denied. Theman also remembers various aspects associated with the sea, such asthe white clouds moving in the sky, the foam and spray, as well as thesound of the sea gulls. Stanza three is a further description of themans life at the sea. He recalls his life as world similar to thewandering life of a gypsy. He remembers being at the helm of his sh... ...ng or mood of each stanza.Firstly, a mood of solitude is expressed in this picture, through thetall ship, being isolated in the open seas, crossing storms, secludedfrom all civilisations. Secondly, a mood of obscure yearning, hunger andfrustration is depicted in this picture with the flung spray and the pursy spume, being very important features in this picture. Thispicture also shows the longing shared between the speaker and theocean. Thirdly, in this picture, the mood of freedom and libertyis reflected through the freedom of a whale and a sea gull. The colour I chose for this picture are very peaceful, with blues andgreens and whites, present the true calmness of the sea.The themes in Sea Fever, the longing the speaker has for the sea andthe comparison of life to a sea voyage, are also seen in the picturesI have displayed on my poster.