How does Tennyson’s poem Crossing the Bar exhort us to accept death calmly?
How does Tennyson’s poem Crossing the Bar exhort us to accept death calmly?
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Tennyson, through his poem, exhorts us to accept death calmly by evoking faith in religion and God. He says in order to meet the creator face-to-face one has to cross the boundary between life and death. Death is to be accepted as natural, a part of transition from life to death. He creates the image of a ship crossing a sandbar into the deeper waters of the ocean and says that death is like this, an unknown territory but one still goes on, having faith in God.
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