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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.
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Pages in category "1889 poems" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. ... Crossing the Bar; H.
The poem was inspired by Charlotte Rosa Baring, younger daughter of William Baring (1779–1820) and Frances Poulett-Thomson (d. 1877). Frances Baring married, secondly, Arthur Eden (1793–1874), Assistant-Comptroller of the Exchequer, and they lived at Harrington Hall, Spilsby, Lincolnshire, which is the garden of the poem (also referred to as "the Eden where she dwelt" in Tennyson's poem ...
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
When you buy a bottle of vitamins from a nutrition store, you’ll probably notice a best-by date on the bottom of the jar. But that inscribed number isn’t a hard-and-fast rule—there is some ...
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