Tag Archives: "Sea Fever"

Dreaming of Travel during Covid

A very smart Covid poem circulating on social media at the moment references 11 poems, all about longing to travel.

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Imagining Little Ocean’s Future

Looking for the literary significance of my latest grandchild, I turn to Walcott, Whitman, Masefield, Coleridge, and Byron. What emerges is a mystical seeker.

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The Lonely Sea and the Sky

The spirit of Maryland’s overnight Governor’s Cup sailboat race is captured in John Masefield’s well known “Sea Fever.”

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I Must Down to the Seas Again

I can imagine my student sailor liking John Masefield’s “Sea Fever.” She knows what it’s like to give oneself over to “the gull’s way and the whale’s way” and how the wind can feel like a whetted knife.

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