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    A Study Guide for Lord Alfred Tennyson's "Crossing the Bar"
    A Study Guide for Lord Alfred Tennyson's "Crossing the Bar"
    A Study Guide for Lord Alfred Tennyson's "Crossing the Bar"
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    A Study Guide for Lord Alfred Tennyson's "Crossing the Bar"

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    A Study Guide for Lord Alfred Tennyson's "Crossing the Bar," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateSep 28, 2016
    ISBN9781535821308
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      A Study Guide for Lord Alfred Tennyson's "Crossing the Bar" - Gale

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      Crossing the Bar

      Alfred Lord Tennyson

      1889

      Introduction

      Crossing the Bar is a poem written by Alfred Tennyson, one of the preeminent poets of Victorian England. (Tennyson's name is often given as Alfred, Lord Tennyson; Lord is a title of nobility he acquired late in life.) Written in October 1889 and published that year in a collection titled Demeter and Other Poems, Crossing the Bar is an optimistic, forward-looking poem about the poet's hopes regarding the afterlife. He composed Crossing the Bar while traveling on a ferryboat to the Isle of Wight with his son Hallam. He later asked Hallam to ensure that the poem be placed at the end of any future editions of his poetry, and editors and compilers of anthologies have generally honored his request. The poem was read at Tennyson's funeral in 1892 and is often recited at modern-day funerals.

      Since Victorian times, the Isle of Wight, located just off the southern coast of England, has been a popular vacation spot. During the nineteenth century it was the site of the royal family's summer home as well as of winter homes for Tennyson and fellow poet Charles Algernon Swinburne. The Isle of Wight is separated from the English mainland by a narrow strait called the Solent. The ferry crossing between the island and the mainland no doubt prefigured for Tennyson the final crossing he would have to make to the afterlife.

      As one of Tennyson's most famous short poems, Crossing the Bar is widely available. It is included in the The Major Works of Tennyson, edited by Adam Roberts as part of the Oxford World's Classics series and published in 2009.

      Author Biography

      Tennyson was born on August 6, 1809, in Somersby, Lincolnshire, England, the fourth of twelve children (nine of whom survived to adulthood) of George and Elizabeth Tennyson. Tennyson's father, who became the rector of a small parish in Somersby, was subject to what the Tennyson family called the black blood: several men in the family tree had

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