Question

discuss "crossing the bar" by tenneson as an elegy.​

Answer 1

Explanation:

• It is written as an elegy, utilizing an extended metaphor of a sailor crossing the sandbar between the tidal area and the sea to represent a human being passing from life to existence beyond death.
• The poem opens by evoking the fall of night, a reference to the poet being in the twilight of his years

Answer 2

• It is written as an elegy, utilizing an extended metaphor of a sailor crossing the sandbar between the tidal area and the sea to represent a human being passing from life to existence beyond death. The poem opens by evoking the fall of night, a reference to the poet being in the twilight of his years.