Thread: Poem Appreciation #7 - Sea Fever (John Masefield)
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Unread 10-24-2012, 03:23 PM
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I wonder if Masefield came to hate Sea Fever as much as Yeats is reputed to have come to despise Lake Isle of Innisfree. I'm afraid this is one of those poems wrecked for me by too much familiarity in childhood, and I have been a serious sailor.
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