Focus Poem Practice: “High Flight”

What is the “topic” of the poem?

• Death

• Growing up

• Flying a plane

• Searching for answers

Which word best describes the tone of the poem?

• Questioning

• Ecstatic

• Awestruck

• Fearful

Which line from the poem best supports the tone of the poem?

• “Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.“

• “Of sun-split clouds, --and done a hundred things”

• “I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung”

• “My eager craft through footless halls of air...”

Which line best supports the idea that the speaker is proud of his accomplishments as a pilot?

• “Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth!”

• “Put our my handAnd touched the face of God”

• “I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace

  Where never lark or even eagle flew --“

• “Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth

  Of sun-split clouds,”

Which line provides the best example of visual imagery?

• “And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;“

• “Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth”

• “Flung my eager craft through footless halls of air.”

• “I’ve topped the windswept heights with easy grace.”

What is the best paraphrase of the line, “I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth.”

• I have fallen asleep and died peacefully.

• I have forgotten about the burdens of life.

• I have returned to Earth after a relaxing flight.

• I have flown away Into the sky from the burdens and trials of life.

Which sentence best explains the literal meaning of the last line of the poem?

• I have died and gone to Heaven.

• I feel like I am in Heaven when I’m flying a plane high in the air.

• I am a God who is able to accomplish many things that most humans cannot.

• I’m so high in the air that I can almost see Heaven.

Which line uses Both auditory (sound) sensory details AND personification ?

• “my eager craft through footless halls of air.”

• “And danced the sky on laughter-silvered wings”

• “I’ve chased the shouting wind along.”

• “ High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there”

What is the theme of the poem?

• Freedom

• Flying a plane is a freeing, reverent and awesome experience.

• Many hard lessons can be learned through flying a plane.

• Death is a peaceful and simple experience met by all human beings.

Which line demonstrates that the poet feels FREEDOM when he flies a plane?

• “Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth.

• “Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue”

• “I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace“

• “You have not dreamed of. Wheeled and soared and swung”