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High Flight has been a favourite poem amongst both aviators and astronauts. It is the official poem of the Royal Canadian Air Force and the Royal Air Force. The poem has to be recited from memory by fourth-class cadets at the United States Air Force Academy, where it can be seen on display in the Cadet Field House. [13]
High Flight: The Life and Poetry of Pilot Officer John Gillespie Magee. Roger Cole, Fighting High Publishing, January 2014. Touching the Face of God: The Story of John Gillespie Magee Jr. and his poem High Flight. Ray Haas, High Flight Productions, North Carolina, September 2014. A Day in Eternity. Kathryn Gabriel Loving, SoulJourn Books ...
Transcription of the poem, following Magee's instructions (as he noted on a different poem) that “If anyone should want this please see that it is accurately copied, capitalized, and punctuated.”: _____ High Flight Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
English: The original manuscript of the poem 'High Flight', by John Gillespie Magee, Jr. This is a letter he sent home to his parents during World War II. The original has been kept at the Air Force Museum at Wright-Patterson AFB by Dayton, Ohio.
Wordsworth wrote two poems addressing a butterfly, of which this is the first and best known. [1] In the poem, he recalls how he and his sister Dorothy would chase butterflies as children when they were living together in Cockermouth, before they were separated following their mother's death in 1778 when he was barely eight years old. [2]
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The means of flight varied, from levitation, to growing wings, to turning into birds (sometimes buzzards), [6] or in the case of the Igbo Landing drownings, they were allegorized as walking on water to Africa. The legend has been compared to the flying imagery found in a number of spirituals, and also to the metaphor of a "caged bird". [9]
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