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Orson Welles read the poem on an episode of The Radio Reader's Digest (11 October 1942), [9] [10] Command Performance (21 December 1943), [11] and The Orson Welles Almanac (31 May 1944). [12] 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.
Poem by Ogilvie upon a stone at the entrance of the Stockman's Hall of Fame, Longreach, Queensland, Australia. A cairn to the poet was erected in 1993 between the villages of Ashkirk and Roberton in Scotland (GPS 55°27′33″N 2°52′43″W / 55.45914°N 2.87868°W / 55.45914; -2.87868 ), [ 99 ] and there are also memorials to ...
A cairn marking a mountain summit in Graubünden, Switzerland. The biggest cairn in Ireland, Maeve's Cairn on Knocknarea. A cairn is a human-made pile (or stack) of stones raised for a purpose, usually as a marker or as a burial mound. The word cairn comes from the Scottish Gaelic: càrn [ˈkʰaːrˠn̪ˠ] (plural càirn [ˈkʰaːrˠɲ]). [1]
12. The Flight Path 1 13. The Flight Path 2 14. The Flight Path 3 15. The Flight Path 4 16. The Flight Path 5 17. The Flight Path 6 18. An Invocation 19. Mycenae Lookout 1. The Watchman's War 20. Mycenae Lookout 2. Cassandra 21. Mycenae Lookout 3. His Dawn Vision 22. Mycenae Lookout 4. The Nights 23. Mycenae Lookout 5. The Reverie of Water
In the first section, poems are compared to commonplace items, including: a fruit, old medallions, the stone ledge of a casement window, and a flight of birds. In the next section, a poem is compared to the moon in terms of its universality. Lastly, the third section states that a poem should just “be,” like a sculpture or painting.
Sailing to Byzantium" is a poem by William Butler Yeats, first published in his collection October Blast, in 1927 [1] and then in the 1928 collection The Tower. It comprises four stanzas in ottava rima, each made up of eight lines of iambic pentameter. It uses a journey to Byzantium (Constantinople) as a metaphor for a spiritual journey. Yeats ...
Suddenly all of them together began running, including the rearguards, and the pack animals and horses were made to gallop. And when they arrived on the summit, then they began embracing one another and the generals and the captains, weeping. And suddenly, when someone passed the word along, the soldiers bring some stones and make a large cairn.
"A Song of Flight" is a song written by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1895, as his Op. 31, No. 2, with the words from a poem by Christina Rossetti. [ 1 ] The song was first performed by the Irish baritone Harry Plunket Greene in St. James's Hall on 2 March 1900, together with After , Op. 31, No. 1.