High Flight
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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. Magee began writing the poem on 18 August, while stationed at No. 53 OTU outside London, and mailed a completed manuscript to his family on 3 September, three months before he died in a training accident. Originally published in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, it was widely distributed when Magee became one of the first post-Pearl Harbor American casualties of the war on 11 December, after which it was exhibited at the American Library of Congress in 1942. The poem is considered a fitting memorial for its author because of its gleeful and ethereal portrayal of flight and aviation (along with its allegorical interpretation
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John Gillespie Magee Jr.
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And touched the face of God.
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For I have danced the streets of heaven,
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: "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, — and 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
: 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 —
: And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod
: The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
: – Put out my hand, and touched the face of God."
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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. Magee began writing the poem on 18 August, while stationed at No. 53 OTU outside London, and mailed a completed manuscript to his family on 3 September, three months before he died in a training accident. Originally published in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, it was widely distributed when Magee became one of the first post-Pearl Harbor American casualties of the war on 11 December, after which it was exhibited at the American Library of Congress in 1942. The poem is considered a fitting memorial for its author because of its gleeful and ethereal portrayal of flight and aviation (along with its allegorical interpretation of death and transcendence). The poem has been featured prominently in aviation memorials across the world, including that of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. 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, — and 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 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 — And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod The high untrespassed sanctity of space, – Put out my hand, and touched the face of God."
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