6th Grade Mr. Cohick Tuesday, March 20, 2012
I really enjoyed both “Sea Fever,” by John Masefield and “The Village Blacksmith,” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, but my favorite was “Sea Fever”. I liked “Sea Fever” because the speaker would go down to the seas every day and even though he doesn’t seem to like it he still goes. Also because the speaker is showing me he doesn’t want to be there instead of just telling me.
“I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and sky.” This is one effective line for me in “Sea Fever”. I really felt like the person is bored of sea again and again. “A grey mist on the seas face and a grey dawn breaking.” This is also an effective line for me in “Sea Fever’’ because he is describing how dawn looks.
There were some very interesting, effective words that stood out to me like vagrant, merry yarn, mist, trick’s, whetted, spume. These words are effective because I have never seen them before and I learned some new words.
Some effective rhythm that stood out to me were, “And all I ask is a tall ship and to steer her by, to the gull’s way and the whale’s way where the winds like a whetted knife.” This rhythm stood out to me the most because the speaker put so much felling into it.
The combination of creativity and emotion really made me like this poem. If the emotion had been missing from the poem it wouldn’t have been good at all. Even one more line like, “I must go down to the see again can really capture the readers interest.