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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
Whether the Will is Free: Poems 1954–62 (1964) The New Poetic (1964) Smith's Dream (1971) Crossing the Bar (1972) Quesada: Poems 1972–74 (1975) Measure for Measure (1977, editor) Walking Westward (1979) Five for the Symbol (1981) Geographies (1982) In the Glass Case: Essays on New Zealand literature (1982) Poems of a Decade (1983) Paris: A ...
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 ...
Former President Donald Trump and his attorney Todd Blanche exit the courthouse and speak to media after Trump was found guilty following his hush money trial at Manhattan Criminal Court on May 30 ...
"Around the Horn" began in 2002 with Max Kellerman as its original host. Reali took over hosting duties in 2004 and has remained in the role ever since.
Stellantis is recalling more than 300,000 Ram Heavy Duty pickup trucks because a faulty part could cause certain braking and tracking systems to fail. The Netherlands-based automaker said the ...