Frasi di John Masefield

John Edward Masefield, OM , è stato un poeta e scrittore inglese, che ricoprì la carica di Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom dal 1930 alla sua morte nel 1967. Egli è ricordato soprattutto per i classici della narrativa per l'infanzia The Midnight Folk e The Box of Delights, e per i suoi poemi, che includono The Everlasting Mercy e Sea-Fever. Wikipedia  

✵ 1. Giugno 1878 – 12. Maggio 1967
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John Masefield: Frasi in inglese

“My blood did leap, my flesh did revel,
Saul Kane was tokened to the devil.”

John Masefield The Everlasting Mercy

The Everlasting Mercy (1919)

“What is this creature, Music, save the Art,
The Rhythm that the planets journey by?
The living Sun-Ray entering the heart,
Touching the Life with that which cannot die?”

" Where does the uttered Music go? http://www.williamwalton.net/works/choral/where_does_the_uttered_music_go.html" (1946)

“I must down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by,
And the wheel's kick and the wind's song and the white sail's shaking,
And a grey mist on the sea's face, and a grey dawn breaking.”

The first line is often misquoted as "I must go down to the seas again." and this is the wording used in the song setting by John Ireland. I disagree with this last point. The poet himself was recorded reading this and he definitely says "seas". The first line should read, 'I must down ...' not, 'I must go down ...' The original version of 1902 reads 'I must down to the seas again'. In later versions, the author inserted the word 'go'.


Source: https://poemanalysis.com/sea-fever-john-masefield-poem-analysis/
Salt-Water Ballads (1902), "Sea-Fever"

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