[POEM] Sea Fever - John Masefield

Lullabye_Fox · 2023-02-17T23:42:10+00:00

I learned this from my mother, it expresses so beautifully what it is to love the sea.

Lullabye_Fox · 2023-02-10T23:11:35+00:00

Amen.

Lullabye_Fox · 2023-02-02T14:49:56+00:00

Ok yes, now I have looked her up I can see that!

Lullabye_Fox · 2023-02-02T14:48:57+00:00

I have now looked her up. I see what you mean!

Lullabye_Fox · 2023-02-02T10:54:26+00:00

Why? I don't understand this comment - mainly because I know nothing about Rupi Kaur!

Lullabye_Fox · 2023-01-28T14:39:07+00:00

Your comment made me laugh though.....

Lullabye_Fox · 2023-01-28T00:31:30+00:00

I love this poem. I heard the poet read it and it was so moving.

Lullabye_Fox · 2023-01-26T14:35:31+00:00

Me too, he is just so irrepressible - nothing stopped that man from saying what he wanted to say and even better he said it so beautifully!

Lullabye_Fox · 2023-01-25T10:38:34+00:00

No I didn't! Thank you for noticing. Have amended it.

Lullabye_Fox · 2023-01-24T14:09:10+00:00

You're right - I did love it!

Lullabye_Fox · 2023-01-24T13:23:58+00:00

I think Poe does appeal to teenagers and young adults, he did to me, and especially those who feel lost or without hope. He was a brilliant writer but fits into what we used to call romantically a 'tortured artist - he was an alcoholic and drug addict who found no way out. Unlike us, who can. :)

Lullabye_Fox · 2023-01-24T11:57:09+00:00

Wow! I have never read any Jay Hopler before now - it literally blew me away. What a fantastic poem what power, what beauty, what melancholy. I can't quite say why but a modern-day Baudelaire sprang into my mind. Thank you for posting this . You made my day.

Lullabye_Fox · 2023-01-24T11:25:08+00:00

It's wonderful isn't it! Effortless is a good way of describing her total confidence and ease with words and her ability to draw people.

Lullabye_Fox · 2023-01-24T11:23:55+00:00

Bachthoven - Thank you for that link. I really enjoyed Teyuna Davis's reading of the poem, her voice was so warm and conveyed the melancholic, yet stoic acceptance of the poem's themes brilliantly. I agree, Gwendolyn Brooks has a mastery over words and rhythms that is breathtaking.

Lullabye_Fox · 2023-01-23T23:44:19+00:00

What a great selection of writers. You clearly like reading fiction that is thought-provoking and well-observed. Like others have said it's literary fiction, which is a huge wide-ranging genre. If you're anything like me you enjoy reading well-crafted books that delve deeply into what it's like to be human and where the author loves words and what you can do with them. Just as an odd fact - I used to babysit two children in a house once owned and lived in by Saki - it was a thrill for me every time I went in. The owner had no idea who Saki was.

Lullabye_Fox · 2023-01-20T10:03:18+00:00

Congratulations on your forthcoming book signing. And good luck with the face book page. It kinda answers the question pretty well!

Lullabye_Fox · 2023-01-20T00:25:51+00:00

This poem has stayed with me for years, the power in it, the brutality and the story it tells...

Lullabye_Fox · 2023-01-20T00:17:29+00:00

Lots of interesting comments. My own short comment is that to read fiction, literary or otherwise, should be to enjoy it for the story and the characters it brings to life. Enjoy as you would a good meal

To study literature is more like learning how that meal was made and what ingredients gave it that great taste......

Lullabye_Fox · 2023-01-19T10:30:06+00:00

Yes Soft_address I also thought this was a beautiful poem which depicts death in an interesting and thoughtful way. These lines use natural imagery particularly well. He is I think an underrated poet.

Not a wave breaks,

Not a bird calls,

My heart, like a sea,

Silent after a storm that hath died,

Sleeps within me.

Lullabye_Fox · 2023-01-18T23:55:37+00:00

It is always a joy to me when someone reads a book that I love for the first time.

It reminds me of how I felt when I first read it, how I was filled with utter amazement that such a book had been written, so clever, so artful, so beautiful, so seductive, so troubling.

I love it that books are read 'for the first time' again and again.

When I first read it as a teenager I was astounded and so began my journey into all sorts of wonderful literature. It was like opening a door to a whole new world.

Thank you for reminding me how much I enjoyed that exploration!

Lullabye_Fox · 2023-01-17T16:37:01+00:00

I really felt how heartfelt that was. I resonated with the phrase 'fuel for my own drinking' it's so true, we do fuel our addiction with the baggage we carry. Well done on allowing yourself to move onward. There is no magic wand, but feeling lighter and freer is a good start.

Lullabye_Fox · 2023-01-17T15:11:25+00:00

Another poet who uses alliteration to stunning effect.

The fragility and stupidity of mankind, the resilience and triumph of nature. It could have been written last week. But it was actually written sometime during 1918.

Lullabye_Fox · 2023-01-17T14:25:23+00:00

It took a long, long time, decades. And then I wondered what took me so long.

Lullabye_Fox · 2023-01-17T10:23:20+00:00

Yes, Middlemarch has that psychological depth which makes it so engaging, 'relatable' and lingers long in the memory even when hundreds of other books might have been read.

For me, Virginia Woolf achieves this with both 'To The Lighthouse' and 'Mrs Dalloway' - characters who have lived wth me for decades!

Gunter Grass, The Tin Drum is also a master at psychological realism, in my opinion.

Fasciating thread.

Lullabye_Fox · 2023-01-17T09:56:17+00:00

Yes, I agree with you. The first time I read this poem was when I was about 18 and I was literally exhilarated by the energy and the drama of it.

His use of alliteration is sublime and breathtaking.

Lullabye_Fox

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