The Lost Pilot (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: James Tate
- First Published: 1966
- Type of Work: Elegy
- Genres: Poetry, Elegy
- Subjects: Parents and children, Fathers, Death or dying, Airplanes or jets, Joy or sorrow, Pilots or pilotage
The Poem
“The Lost Pilot” is a poem in free verse, its forty-eight lines divided into sixteen stanzas, each of which is three lines in length. The title, along with the dedication to the poet’s father (emphasizing the fact that the father died at the extremely young age of twenty-two), establishes a mood of loss both violent and tragic. The loss of a pilot suggests the loss of direction and control. The loss of a pilot/father foreshadows the great personal grief and bewilderment with which the poet will struggle throughout the length of the poem.
Appropriately, the...
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