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 theme statement for John Masefield’s poem “Roadways” could be, different people find their God-given way in life by following different avenues. In the case of this poem, Masefield explains that for some their “roadways” lead to different cities by land. But, for the subject of the poem he is meant to find the meaning in his life by following his penchant for sea travel. He travels in all directions by sailing seas. For him, the sea is his roadway. As the poem states, for some sea voyages bring them back home but for him the sea is taking him “In quest of that one beauty, God put me here to find.”
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