John Masefield

John Masefield's poem "The West Wind" evokes a sense of nostalgia and longing for home, using the west wind as a symbol of guidance and comfort. The poem's imagery highlights the natural beauty of...

The speaker welcomes the west wind, as it evokes joyous visions of his homeland: the old brown hills, where there are daffodils and apple blossoms and all manner of natural loveliness. Out there in...

The stanzas (line groupings) are quatrains (four lines to each stanza); this form allows the poet to bring the reader along the "road" to "the fine land, the west land, the land where I...

Let us remember what this poem is all about. This poem represents a dive into nostalgia as the feel of the West Wind reminds the poet of home and of all that is good there. The entire poem is an...

The west wind in the poem “comes from the west lands,” and so does the speaker.  So whenever the west wind blows, the speaker is reminded of his home, and the tears are caused by...

The theme of a written piece is its implied message or meaning. Therefore a thematic statement generally states the author’s message and can include feelings about that message. An appropriate...

This is a poem that clearly is about nostalgia. The way in which the west wind in the first stanza is described obviously indicates that the west wind brings with it a whole load of memories to the...

Although the poem does seem to have an inconsistent number of syllables in each line, the scansion of its rhythms and meter are actually fairly consistent if you emphasize the appropriate words....

We know that the speaker is from the West in "The West Wind" because he gets very teary-eyed and sentimental when he talks about it. For instance, he tells us that he never hears the west wind...