"Crossing the Bar"
Discuss the tone of the poem? How is it achieved?
The overall tone of this poem is acceptance. The man is aboviously referring to his proximity to death, and how he has become adjusted to the fact that he is going to die. Now all he worries about is that it be peaceful. His use of "turns again home" gives the reader the idea that he is okay with dying, because it is simply a journey home and not to some foreign land. He also says the he hopes to see his "Pilot's" face. The fact that it is capitalized making it appear to be a symbol for God. By saying that he hopes to see God, it means that he is almost awaiting his death anxiously. He does not want any moaning of the bar, which refers to bad weather. He just wants to drift past the sandbar and on to his next life without any major interruption.
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