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is crossing the bar an elegy?

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    “Crossing the Bar” is considered an elegy as the main focus of the poet is on transition from life to death. Many critics have analyzed that the poem can be read as an elegy for the poet himself. The poem is an anticipation of the journey the poet have to take from life to death.

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