write about john masefield's adult life.
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Masefield was born on 1st June, 1878 in Ledbury, Herefordshire, England. His mother died when he was only six years old. He lived with his aunt and father but later his father, who was a solicitor, died due to a mental breakdown. Masefield was not happy with his education at King’s School in Warwick, where he lived as a boarder and left to join the British naval ship HMS Conway to be trained at sea. He spent many years on the ship and spent a lot of time in reading and writing.
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John Masefield is a well known English writer and poet. He is best remembered as the author of
the classics for children names as “
The Midnight
Folk”
and as a poet for his works such as
“Sea
fever.”
At the age of sixteen he entered to the world of Merchant Navy. However his passion for reading and writing was still continued while at board. While being aboard is when he realized that his passion should be bought out and he should be a writer by himself. During his tenure as a sailor, he had to face many sea sicknesses and finally in the year 1895,when his ship boarded New York City, he deserted the ship and walked out to be writer. Even though it was his dream to be a writer, before he could make it he has to sustain on many odd jobs and traveled lots to keep going. Finally by 1902, he got his dream come true. His poems and novels started to get published. In 1895, Masefield happened to read a New York periodical, the Truth, which contained the poem
‘The Piper of All’ by Duncan Scott. After near to
10 years, Masefield wrote to Scott, what it meant for him to read that poem. From that poem is how he got inspired to poetry and that poem had deeply influenced him to turn to poetry