High FlightPoetry Analysis
Luke Sivado
High Flight Analysis
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.
- John Magee
Title
I think it will be be about flying through the air. Being very high in the air in an airplane during World War II.
Paraphrase
The wind is flying by him as he flys in the sky.
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
He is so high, he thinks he is in space. He has topped everything. He is as high as he possibly can be.
Connotation
He is so high in the sky he can see the Angels dancing in heaven.
His plane is soaring. He can feel the gravity dropping
He feels close to God. Gid will always protect him. He news God is with him in the air
Atittude
Delirium
Shocked
Happy
Shifts
He turns the focus towards the audience intsead of himself.
It is the first time he uses You to start the sentence.
Put out my hand and touched the face of God.
Instead of taking about himself he is taking about God. He is so how he thinks he can touch the face of God he thinks he is that close.
Title
It is about flying high in the sky. He feels unstoppable. I wasn't completely right