John Masefield
John Masefield
Masefield was born in led bury, Herefordshire. When Masefield was only six, his mother died giving birth to his younger sister. He ended up living with his aunt because his father died after mental break down. Masefield was really unhappy through his high school years due to the unexpected deaths of his parents. After an emotional education at the kings school in Warwick he was a boarded between 1888 and 1891, he left to board the HMS Conway, both to train for a life at sea and to break his addiction of reading. While on the ship of Conway he knew he loved to read and write and listen to the stories told about the sea lore. He continued to read, and felt that he was to become a writer and story teller himself.
John later took his journey throughout the seas and ended up to Chile. Where on the way he got sea sick for the first time, and where he would write about the mellow birds flying across the sea and jumping fish swooshing out of the water and just fascinated by the beauty of nature. On arriving to Chile john suffer from sunstroke and was hospitalized. He eventually returns to England as a passenger abroad a steam ship. The urge to become a writer and the hopelessness of a life as a sailor overtook him, and in New York he deserted the ship. He lived as a vagrant for several months, before returning to new York city, he did many odd jobs, finding work as an assistant to a bar keeper.
Sometime around Christmas time he read a poem called ‘The piper of Aril’ by Duncan Campbell Scott where he so inspired. Ten years later he wrote to Scott asking what the writing poem meant to him. I had never cared very much for poetry, but your poem impressed me deeply, and set me on fire. Since then poetry has been the one deep influence in my life and to my love of poetry I owe all my friends, and the position I now hold. And at that time where john Masefield blow up of popularity. For the next two years, Masefield was employed in a carpet factory, where
Masefield was born in led bury, Herefordshire. When Masefield was only six, his mother died giving birth to his younger sister. He ended up living with his aunt because his father died after mental break down. Masefield was really unhappy through his high school years due to the unexpected deaths of his parents. After an emotional education at the kings school in Warwick he was a boarded between 1888 and 1891, he left to board the HMS Conway, both to train for a life at sea and to break his addiction of reading. While on the ship of Conway he knew he loved to read and write and listen to the stories told about the sea lore. He continued to read, and felt that he was to become a writer and story teller himself.
John later took his journey throughout the seas and ended up to Chile. Where on the way he got sea sick for the first time, and where he would write about the mellow birds flying across the sea and jumping fish swooshing out of the water and just fascinated by the beauty of nature. On arriving to Chile john suffer from sunstroke and was hospitalized. He eventually returns to England as a passenger abroad a steam ship. The urge to become a writer and the hopelessness of a life as a sailor overtook him, and in New York he deserted the ship. He lived as a vagrant for several months, before returning to new York city, he did many odd jobs, finding work as an assistant to a bar keeper.
Sometime around Christmas time he read a poem called ‘The piper of Aril’ by Duncan Campbell Scott where he so inspired. Ten years later he wrote to Scott asking what the writing poem meant to him. I had never cared very much for poetry, but your poem impressed me deeply, and set me on fire. Since then poetry has been the one deep influence in my life and to my love of poetry I owe all my friends, and the position I now hold. And at that time where john Masefield blow up of popularity. For the next two years, Masefield was employed in a carpet factory, where