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Scholars have noted that the form of the poem follows the content: the wavelike quality of the long-then-short lines parallels the narrative thread of the poem. The extended metaphor of "crossing the bar" represents travelling serenely and securely from life into death. The Pilot is a metaphor for God, whom the speaker hopes to meet face to face.
In the mid-19th-century, the phrase "the harbor bar be moaning" in the poem and lyric "Three Fishers" connected working-class suffering to the noises. Later in that century, Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote "Crossing the Bar", coupling "May there be no moaning of the bar" with images of life's end, and then designated it as essentially his own ...
Hymn "Crossing the bar" (Tennyson), p. 1903 Hymn-tune "Through the night of doubt and sorrow", p. 1904 Motet "Beyond these voices there is peace" for soprano, bass, chorus & orchestra, c. 1908, p. 1908
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Charles Villiers Stanford set "Crossing the Bar" for high voice and piano in April 1880, a year after the poem has been first published. [69] Maude Valérie White (four songs, 1885) and Liza Lehmann (10 songs, 1899) both composed song cycles selecting passages from In Memoriam . [ 70 ]
Some young Americans had a tough time finding a job last year. Companies were slow to hire in 2024 as workers quit their jobs less frequently, according to government data — a far cry from the ...
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Nonalcoholic alternatives to bar ingredients like spirits, aperitifs, or even mixers can veer sweet since sugar, like alcohol, adds texture and body to an ingredient. Plus, the alcoholic bite of a ...