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Always In Poems 3 Letters – One day in late August or early September 1941, a 19-year-old Royal Canadian Air Force fighter pilot named John Gillespie Magee, Jr., then serving with No. 412 Squadron at Royal Air Force Digby , England, sent a letter to his parents. “I am attaching a verse I wrote the other day,” he began. “It started at 30,000 feet and ended shortly after I landed.” The verse, or “cantolina,” as Magee would later refer to it, was a sonnet titled “High Flight,” a fourteen-line cry to the sublimity and pure joy of flight that Magee felt during a solo run in his plane Spitfire. Magee’s aunt helped publish the poem in the Nov. 12 issue of the magazine

It was Dec. 11, just months after Magee, a U.S. citizen who had joined the RCAF in 1940 before the U.S. entered World War II, had written “High Flight.” Returning to base with his squadron after taking part in a successful training exercise, Magee’s Spitfire collided with an Airspeed Oxford flown by Ernest Aubrey Griffin. Both Magee and Griffin were killed.

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Within days of Magee’s death, “High Flight” had been reprinted in newspapers across the United States. Soon after, the RCAF began distributing plaques with the text of the poem at British and Canadian airfields and training stations. And before long, copies of the poem could be found in the pockets of many American, Canadian and British fighter pilots.

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The poem’s popularity owes much to the fact that Magee’s parents were living in Washington, D.C., at the time of their deaths. The United States had been brought into the war only days earlier after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, and since Magee was one of the first local casualties, DC reporters immediately went to his parents’ home to get information about the downed pilot. At the time, John’s father was an assistant minister at St. John’s Church, and among the materials he provided to reporters was an issue of the church newsletter in which “High Flight” had been published. The poem was widely reprinted in the following days as part of the stories covering Magee’s death, and soon attracted the attention of the poet and Librarian of Congress Archibald MacLeish, who immediately hailed Magee as the first poet of the Second World War. On February 5, 1942, the Library of Congress included Magee’s poem in an exhibit called “Poems of Faith and Freedom.” “High Flight” shared a case in the exhibition with two prominent First World War poems, John McCrae’s “In Flanders Fields” and Rupert Brooke’s “The Soldier.” “High Flight” was the only World War II poem included in the exhibit, and thanks in part to the Library’s exhibit, it quickly became one of the best-known poems of World War II.

The Library of Congress receives many inquiries each year about the correct spelling and punctuation of “High Flight”; versions of the poem found on the web and in print often introduce minor variations not found in the original manuscript. We are able to assist with these inquiries inasmuch as the original manuscript copy of “High Flight” is part of the John Magee Papers in our Manuscript Division, given to the Library by Magee’s parents on 14 April 1943. However, the letter enclosing the poem, because it was written by Magee on thin airmail paper, is difficult to read.

Reprints vary in punctuation, capitalization, and indentation from the original manuscript. . . . Some parts are faded and difficult to read, but the above version follows Magee’s as exactly as can be ascertained, following his pencil note on another poem: “If any one wants this, please see that it is copied with precision, capitalization, and punctuation.” Almost all versions use “. . . even eagle,” but to the editor’s careful scrutiny, it was “never,” formed exactly like the preceding “never.”

“High Flight” has made numerous appearances in American popular culture since it was exhibited at the Library of Congress and continues to enjoy great popularity in the United States. Orson Welles, for example, recorded a reading of it on October 11, 1942 for Radio Reader’s Digest. During the 1950s and at least until the early 1980s, the poem was included in the “signatures” of many television networks before it went on the air, making a place in the imagination and memories of several generations of Americans. A copy of the poem was taken to the Moon by Apollo 15 Lunar Module pilot James Irwin.

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The poem is probably best known today to Americans old enough to have witnessed the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger on January 28, 1986. President Reagan, who had been planning to deliver his State of the Union address that night, he comforted a mourner. nation giving one of the most powerful presidential addresses of the 20th century, concluding with the following paragraph that quotes the first and last lines of the poem:

The crew of the space shuttle Challenger honored us by the way they lived their lives. We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye and “slipped the bonds of the earth” to “touch the face of God.”

By writing “High Flight,” John Gillespie Magee, Jr. achieved a place in the American consciousness arguably greater than he could have achieved through heroism in battle. His poem will continue to rank among the most popular aviation poems ever written as long as there are people in whom the miracle of flight inspires wonder and awe.

The Library’s original copy of “High Flight” is stored in a vault in our Manuscript Division; due to preservation issues, viewing access is rarely allowed. If you have questions about our copy of “High Flight” or other materials from the John Magee Papers, please do not hesitate to contact our Manuscripts Division.

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Links to Internet sites external to the Library of Congress web pages do not constitute an endorsement by the Library of the content of its web sites or its policies or products. Please read our standard Legal Notice. Before looking at some specific elements of poetry, it would be helpful to try to briefly define what a poem is.

The truth is that when we get ready, poetry is not so easy to figure out. Even poets themselves disagree about what constitutes a poem. So what opportunity do our students with difficulties have?

Fortunately, some broad and general characteristics can be agreed upon. In this article, we will look at these common characteristics of poetry and how we can best instill them in our students.

● It looks like a poem: If it looks like a poem and reads like a poem, there is a good chance that it is, in fact, a poem. Poetry is presented in lines, some of which are complete sentences, but many are not. Also, these lines don’t usually flow to the margins consistently, as in, say, a novel. All of this gives poetry a distinctive and recognizable look on the page.

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●      It often has some underlying form that holds things together; although this is not always true (in some free verse, for example), much poetry conforms to a prescribed structure, such as a sonnet, haiku, etc.

● Uses imagery: If the poet is worth his salt, he will strive to create images in the reader’s mind by using lots of sensory details and figurative language.

● It has a certain musicality: we could be forgiven for thinking that the natural embodiment of poetry is the written word and its habitat, the page, but the printed word is not where poetry originates. The first poems were written orally and committed to memory. We can still see the importance of the sound of language when we read poems aloud. We can also see it in the attention given to the musical devices incorporated in the poem. Devices such as alliteration, assonance and rhyme, for example. We will look at many of these later in this article.

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Of all the forms that professional writers can take, the professional poet most often finds himself struggling to make ends meet financially. Poetry can be difficult to understand and requires a lot of effort on the part of the reader. Students can be forgiven for wondering exactly what is the point of this difficult-to-write-and-read genre that is apparently used to torture the less literate during their school years.

It might be a hard sell for some of our more reluctant students, but behind all that wordsmithing is a point.

The purpose of poetry is essential to help us understand the world around us. It aims to show us new things that we might have previously taken for granted. It offers us new perspectives on the familiar.

The purpose of poetry is to allow us to see the world again with new eyes, like a child’s. By doing this, this

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