Sea Fever

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. There use of rhythm, imagery, metaphor and personification. John Masfield use all those things to make reader close to the sea and more understand why the speak must return to the sea. Sea Fever has three stanza and rhythm, which give …

…speaker compare “the vagrant gypsy life” to the ocean. “Sea Fever” is use metaphor comparing the speaker’s life to the sea. In conclusion, imagery is seen practically on each line throughout the poem. John uses personification to tell details of the wind, ship and sea. Sea Fever uses imagery, metaphor, and personification to help strengthen the themes and help the reader gain an understanding of the speaker’s desire to return to the sea.