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“Crossing the Bar” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson is a poem that expresses a sailor’s death. The poem starts with the sailor getting to know that he is going to die very soon by hearing a call from the symbols “sunset and evening star” and “twilight and evening bell” both which represent the onset of the night. The sailor, in the entire poem is actually asking his family and friends not to be heartbroken or to cry when he dies. The phrase “moaning of the bar” refers to the sad sound made by the wind and waves when passing over a sandbar during a stormy weather. The sailor does not want any sadness when he dies, rather wishes for a tide that would be so full that it would not contain any foam or sound, for this reason, it would seem like the ocean is sleeping when all that is being carried from the boundless depths of the sea would return back out to the depths.
Even though the person is sad because he won’t get to see his dear friends and family and that he will be far away from the......

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