I must go down to the sea today…the lonely sea & the sky…
Sea Fever by John Masefield.
It’s funny how certain things you were taught in English Literature lessons stick in your mind all these years later.
I didn’t even have to check the name of the poet!
I e been to Blackpool today to return one of the shirts I bought last Saturday & also to the opticians for a new glasses case.
Three good things:
1. I spent the whole of yesterday with different earrings on & no one noticed! Dot spent four hours looking at me & she said she never noticed!
2. The opticians replaced my very good glasses case with two of the same make as my new specs.
3. Blackpool promenade looked lovely today in the sun before all the hordes of tourists arrive!
Well done on the recall.. I am amazed by that as well when you sometime forget what you have gone to get from another room.. lol
Lovely blue sky.. and sea..
Amazing how some things from our school days still remain firmly in our minds! - - such a lovely minimalistic scene in blue!! He does look so alone - this poem is new to me - must look it up!
A lovely sunny day to visit blackpool again Pat!!
@beryl It’s just about the only poem I remember, oh a bit of Hiawatha, I loved Hiawatha. Sadly the weather is going to change now & we have the boys visiting next week. 😨
There is certainly a buzz to be felt just by standing watching the sea. I remember learning daffodils, 'when all at once I saw a crowd, a host of golden daffodils' Wordsworth
At our local library they have a table where books they are getting rid of are for sale and I recently bought The Box of Delights by John Masefield for $1. It was one of my early children's books and I have just re-read it. A bit dated I suppose but still magical.
It's not just watching or looking at the sea - its the sound as well! Love that poem... set me looking at other sea poems! Learn more with google than ever did at school!
Strangely as I’m nervous of the sea but that one poem brings such a vision of the sound & smell of the sea. My mum loved poetry & I have a few of hers in the bookcase, me not so much as that but I am drawn to the more modern easier poems.
Yes I thought punk,I think if I had been born later I might have been a bit if a punk!! @boxplayer 🤣🤣🤣🤣🫢
That's a poem in my mind still! (I once taught a class of teenage English GCSE students for an hour and when I got home found that I was wearing odd shoes - but they were both black!)
Lovely blue sky.. and sea..
A lovely sunny day to visit blackpool again Pat!!
I love Sea Fever by John Masefield.
At our local library they have a table where books they are getting rid of are for sale and I recently bought The Box of Delights by John Masefield for $1. It was one of my early children's books and I have just re-read it. A bit dated I suppose but still magical.
Strangely as I’m nervous of the sea but that one poem brings such a vision of the sound & smell of the sea. My mum loved poetry & I have a few of hers in the bookcase, me not so much as that but I am drawn to the more modern easier poems.
Yes I thought punk,I think if I had been born later I might have been a bit if a punk!! @boxplayer 🤣🤣🤣🤣🫢