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🗓️ 5 June 2019
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Today's poem is John Masefield's popular poem "Sea Fever."
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0:44.1 | Welcome back to the daily poem here on the Close Reeds Podcast Network. I'm David Kern. |
0:51.6 | Today's poem is by John Maysfield. |
0:55.0 | He was an English poet who lived from 1878 to 1967, |
0:58.8 | and it was the poet laureate of the United Kingdom from 1930 until 1967. |
1:04.1 | Among his most well-known works are children's novels The Midnight Folk and The Box of Delights, |
1:10.0 | and he is known for the poem |
1:11.9 | Sea Fever, which is the poem that I'm going to read today. I was reminded of this poem by someone |
1:16.3 | on Twitter recently, and I wish I could find out or remember who it was to give them credit. |
1:21.8 | So if you're listening to this in some random reason, then thank you for reminding me of this. |
1:29.5 | This is a poem that was, you might remember it as being quoted in the 1971 movie |
1:35.1 | Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, or perhaps in a Star Trek episode by Captain James T. Kirk. |
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