Get West Wind Poem By John Masefield Background. Heres a virtual movie of john masefield reading his much loved poem the west wind the poem is read by john masefield himself in a recording made in 1958. He wishes to go back to his native place.
And the wheel's kick and the wind's song and the white sail's shaking, and a grey mist on the sea's face, and a grey dawn breaking. He was poet laureate from 1930 until his death. I must down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, and all i ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by;
Tears fell down when he reminds the memorable movements of west winds.
He wishes to go back to his native place. For it comes from the west lands, the old brown. His mother died when he was six and his father shortly after. New york the macmillan company 1915.