Question

Why must the sea fever poet go down to the seas again?​

Answer 1

Answer:

John Masefield's poem Sea Fever is taking about the speaker want to go back to the seas again. The theme in Sea Fever is longing for freedom and an adventurous ocean is developed. ... Each stanza star from the same stance "I must go down to the seas again". John use this for shows the theme more clearly.

Answer 2

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Explanation:

John Masefield’s Sea-Fever is perhaps his most well-known work and describes the poet’s longing to go to sea. Despite its first-person poetic voice, the principal theme of wanderlust is one that transcends the speaker and can be identified with by many. Masefield spent time as a sailor aboard different ships and therefore can effortlessly demonstrate his love for and affinity with this lifestyle. Sea-Fever is brief and simple, yet it’s lyrical composition, repeated refrain and poetic devices render it a perfect poem to be both read aloud or reflected upon in solitude.

Sea-Fever is formed of three quatrains; the first and second lines always rhyming to form one couplet, and the third and fourth rhyming to form a second couplet. The meter is heptameter but the types of feet are varied throughout the work and so the stresses on each syllable can change from line to line. However, despite its varying feet, it nonetheless seems to flow like music, and we may regard the irregular stresses as an attempt to mirror the uneven rhythms of the sea. Interestingly, although in the original version of the poem – published in 1902 – the first line of each stanza is “I must down to the seas again”, in later versions Masefield inserted the word “go”, altering both the verb and the meter of the refrain.