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1. www.poetryfoundation.org › poems › 157986High Flight | The Poetry Foundation

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   High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there, I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung. My eager craft through footless halls of air .... Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue. I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace. Where never lark, or even eagle flew—.

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3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › High_FlightHigh Flight - Wikipedia

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   High Flight is a 1941 sonnet written by war poet John Gillespie Magee Jr. and inspired by his experiences as a fighter pilot of the Royal Canadian Air Force in World War II.

4. interestingliterature.com › 2019 › 12A Short Analysis of John Gillespie Magee’s ‘High Flight (An ...

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   John Gillespie Magee’s poem celebrates the act of flight as a means of transcending or ‘slipp [ing] the surly bonds of Earth’, rather than having to confine himself, in Hulme’s phrase, to being ‘mixed up with earth’.

5. fly.historicwings.com › 2021 › 04High Flight – the Untold Story of Aviation’s Greatest Poem

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   Apr 18, 2021 · In the poem, “The Blind Man Flies”, Hicks ended it with these words: Now joy is mine through my long night, I do not feel the rod, For I have danced the streets of heaven, And touched the face of God. After he landed, taking inspiration from Hicks, he reworked the last line of the poem into his own.

6. 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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7. www.souljournbooks.com › post › the-spiritualThe Spiritual Meaning of John Gillespie Magee’s Poem “High ...

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   Feb 27, 2024 · This excerpt in the novel peices together quotes from John Magee’s letters and extrapolations from what he said he had read. Icarus: An Anthology of the Poetry of Flight by R de la Bere (Macmillan, London, 1938), contains the poem, “The Blind Man Flies,” by Cuthbert Hicks.

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   What is the poem 'High Flight' about?

   • Unlike earlier, Romantic poems written about birds in flight, ‘High Flight (An Airman’s Ecstasy)’ sees man taking to the skies, thanks to the early twentieth-century invention of the aeroplane. Here’s the poem ‘High Flight’, followed by some words of analysis. Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there,

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   How did Hicks end the poem 'The Blind Man flies'?

   • In the poem, “The Blind Man Flies”, Hicks ended it with these words: Now joy is mine through my long night, I do not feel the rod, For I have danced the streets of heaven, And touched the face of God. After he landed, taking inspiration from Hicks, he reworked the last line of the poem into his own.

   High Flight – the Untold Story of Aviation’s Greatest Poem

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   What is the most famous poem about flight ever written?

   • ‘Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth’: so begins one of the most celebrated poems about flight ever written. Unlike earlier, Romantic poems written about birds in flight, ‘High Flight (An Airman’s Ecstasy)’ sees man taking to the skies, thanks to the early twentieth-century invention of the aeroplane.

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   What is the message of high flight by John Gillespie Magee?

   • Magee’s ‘High Flight’ tells the exhilaration and freedom of flight, capturing the fearless spirit of those who leave the earth behind to fly. John Gillespie Magee was a Royal Canadian Air Force fighter pilot. His poem, ‘High Flight,’ made his name as a poet as well. Central Message: God waits beyond all human suffering.

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   What is the theme of the poem Flying?

   • The poem touches on themes of mortality, suggesting that the experience of flying represents a transcendent moment in which the speaker rises above the limitations of the physical world. This poem was written during World War II, not long before the poet lost his life. His plane collided with another in 1941 over England.

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   Why is 'high flight' a classic of 20th-century poetry?

   • The poem is widely regarded as a classic of 20th-century poetry, praised for its imagery, lyricism, and evocation of the human spirit. It is incredibly powerful and emotional in its relationship to contemporary events. 'High Flight' is a well-known example of American poetry from World War II.

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9. www.aviationquotations.com › highflightGreat Aviation Quotes | High Flight by John Magee

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   The last two lines in Hicks’ poem, The Blind Man Flies, are: For I have danced the streets of heaven, And touched the face of God. The same anthology includes the poem New World, by G. W. M. Dunn, which contains the phrase “on laughter-silvered wings”.