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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.
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A graphic organizer, also known as a knowledge map, concept map, story map, cognitive organizer, advance organizer, or concept diagram, is a pedagogical tool that uses visual symbols to express knowledge and concepts through relationships between them. [1]
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