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1. www.defensemedianetwork.com › stories › high-flightHigh Flight: The Most Famous Aviation Poem Is Born

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   Aug 13, 2011 · On Aug. 18, 1941, Pilot Officer John Gillespie Magee, Jr., of No. 53 Operational Training Unit, Royal Canadian Air Force, climbed into a Spitfire for a test flight. With its unique elliptical wings and legendary Rolls-Royce Merlin engine, the nimble Spitfire is arguably the most storied and beautifully designed fighter to come out of World War II.

2. poemanalysis.com › john-gillespie-magee › high-flightHigh Flight by John Gillespie Magee - Poem Analysis

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   ‘High Flight’ by John Gillespie Mageeis a moving depiction of what it is like to leave the earth and one’s everyday life behind and fly. The bulk of ‘High Flight’ is spent depicting, through techniques such as alliteration, sibilance, and personification, the experience of flying. The speaker’s descriptions are joyous and uplifting. He describes th...

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   ‘High Flight’ by John Gillespie Magee is a three-stanza poem that is separated into two sets of four lines, known as quatrains, and one set of six lines, known as a sextet. There are in total, fourteen lines in this piece, making this poem a sonnet. But, unlike most sonnets, it does not follow the traditional Shakespearean or Petrarchan pattern, at...

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   Magee makes use of several poetic techniques in ‘High Flight.’ These include but are not limited to, alliteration, sibilance, enjambment, and personification. The latter, personification, occurs when a poet imbues a non-human creature or object with human characteristics. For example, in the third line of the second stanza, where he describes the w...

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   Stanza One

   In the first stanza of ‘High Flight,’ the speaker begins by celebrating the feeling of flight. He describes slipping free of the “surly bonds of earth.” He’s left behind the heavyweight of day-to-day life. Using a series of words that begin with or include the letter “s,” Magee gives more detail to the experience. Personification is also used to describe the clouds, how the plane moved through the sky, and the joy the speaker felt. His experiences in the sky have supplied him with the knowled...

   Stanza Two

   The second quatraindescribes some of the things that the speaker has done that “You have not dreamed of.” He has spun and “soared and swung” through the sky and been within the “sunlight silence.” As a close reader will immediately note, the “s” words are continuing, a technique known as sibilance. These are used to mimic the rush of air around the plane.

   Stanza Three

   In the third stanza of High Flight,’ the speaker uses repetition to mimic the climb of the plane “Up, up” through the sky into areas that even the strongest birds don’t touch. He has been where “never far, or even eagle flew.” There is something incredibly special about this fact, and he’s trying to convey it through his joyous tone. In the final three lines, the poem turns inward, expressing the spiritual nature of this experience and how impactful it was for the speaker. He went into lands...

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3. ingeniumcanada.org › sites › defaultHigh Flight - Poem by John G. Magee, Jr. - Canada Aviation ...

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   High Flight. Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth Of sun-split clouds - done a hundred things You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung ...

4. cinemalit.weebly.com › story-analyses › the-aviatorThe Aviator (2004) - Synopsis and Analysis - CINEMA LITERATURE

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   Jan 26, 2016 · Synopsis. In Houston, 1913, nine-year-old Howard Hughes is warned by his mother of the diseases to which she is afraid he will succumb. Fourteen years later, he begins to direct the movie Hell’s Angels. However, after the release of The Jazz Singer, the first partially talking film, Hughes becomes obsessed with shooting his film realistically ...

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5. mhshsushistory.weebly.com › a_different_mirrorA Different Mirror - Ms. Moore's American History ...

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   “While Takaki’s subtitle is ‘a history of multicultural America,’ his book is also a manifesto for the future.” —New York Review of Books “A Different Mirror demonstrates that employing a multicultural approach to American history is a necessary first step toward the binding together of our disunited nation.” —Detroit Free Press

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6. www.scribd.com › document › 749186317Aviator Summary | PDF - Scribd

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   AVIATOR SUMMARY - Free download as PDF File (.pdf), Text File (.txt) or read online for free. Help

7. www.thegambler.co.za › aviator › aviator-strategyAviator Strategy & Tips PDF Download - The Gambler

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   On The Gambler we’ve posted the full Aviator PDF’s for free download, so that you can enjoy reading about the different tips and strategies in your own time. Below you’ll find a download link for the most popular Aviator PDFs, which you can download for free. We’ve also posted the contents of the PDF for those who can’t be bothered to ...