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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 requiem.
The poem is a distorted view of a single reality, and the variation in meter can be seen to reflect the manic-depressive emotional tone of the speaker. While the poem was Tennyson's own favourite (he was known very willingly to have recited the poem in its entirety on social occasions), it was met with much criticism in contemporary circles.
Symphonic poem, "A Vision of Life" for soprano, bass, chorus & orchestra p. 1907; revised 1914 "Eton Memorial Ode" (Bridges) for chorus & orchestra p. 1908 "Ode on the Nativity" (Dunbar) for soprano, chorus & orchestra p. 1912; Naval Ode "The Chivalry of the Sea" (Bridges) for chorus & orchestra p. 1916
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Heng Siok Tian (born 1963) is a Singaporean poet and educator. [1] She has published five volumes of poetry: Crossing the Chopsticks and Other Poems (1993), [2] My City, My Canvas (1999), [3] Contouring (2004), [4] Is My Body a Myth (2011) [5] and Mixing Tongues (2011).
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