Page 178 - 100 Best Loved Poems - Teaching Unit
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“Crossing the Bar”
by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, pages 63-64
Vocabulary
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1. What is the speaker’s attitude towards death and dying?
2. What is the sandbar a metaphor of?
3. This entire poem functions as an analogy. To what is Lord Tennyson’s image of a ship
“crossing the bar” and going out to sea an analogy?
4. Explain the speaker’s reference to “my Pilot” in the last stanza.
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