Crossing_the_Bar

Crossing the Bar “Crossing the Bar” Analyzation This poem “Crossing the Bar” is written by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. It involves numerous amounts of metaphors throughout the entire poem. It is abut death, but the author tells death as a story of himself setting out to sea. (The journey to the unknown). The setting of this poem is obviously the sea. Tennyson is on a boat going on a journey to death. The title is also a metaphor. In actuality, a bar is a sand boundary in the ocean.. In this poem, the bar is the imaginary line between life and death. The opening line is also a metaphor (“Sunset and evening star,”) for the ending of the day or the beginning of death.. The “boundless deep” in line 7 is what is not life; The unknown or death. In line 8, “turns again home” means that dying is actually going home since we came from the unknown so we go back to the unknown, The last obvious metaphor is the “Pilot” in line 15 which represents God. The tone of the poem is very interesting, Most people fear death, but Tennyson makes it seem soothing and death, poem, line, tennyson, metaphor, going, bar, way, very, life, home, unknown, tide, represents, people, out, interesting, back, story, stanza, soothing, setting, sea, ocean, obviously, makes, journey, days, crossing, written, words, within, wave, unknown, turns, tranquil, tone, title, tiny, tides, throughout, thinks, think, things, thing, tells, sunset, star