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‘High Flight’ by John Gillespie Magee is 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.
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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.
‘High Flight (An Airman’s Ecstasy)’ is the one well-known poem by John Gillespie Magee (1922-41), an Anglo-American fighter pilot who served in the Royal Canadian Air Force.
Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine. Poems & Poets. ... High Flight. By John Gillespie Magee Jr. Share. Oh! I have slipped ...
Apr 18, 2021 · His poem, “High Flight”, is perhaps the most well-known and best loved verse in aviation history. The story of how Magee came to write his famous poem and what happened to him afterward are not well known, however.
After a high altitude test flight one day, John wrote his parents a letter and enclosed a poem--this one--that test flight inspired. He was killed a few months later, when his plane collided with that of another British military pilot.
About. The author of this poem, John Gillespie Magee, Jr., was an American aviator who died flying in World War II. The poem was written after a training exercise where Magee reached 33,000...
