What type/s of connection are you going to use for the excerpt of presidential proclamation of Obama and crossing the bar ? Explain your answer.
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What type/s of connection are you going to use for the excerpt of presidential proclamation of Obama and crossing the bar ? Explain your answer.
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson wrote Crossing the Bar in 1889, three years before he died. The poem describes his placid and accepting attitude toward death. Although he followed this work with subsequent poems, he requested that Crossing the Bar appear as the final poem in all collections of his work.
The English poet is often regarded as the chief representative of the Victorian age in poetry. Tennyson succeeded Wordsworth as Poet Laureate in 1850, being appointed by Queen Victoria and served 42 years. Tennyson’s works were melancholic and reflected the moral and intellectual values of his time.
The poem itself is a metaphor for death. ‘Crossing the Bar’ could be interpreted to mean “crossing the sandbar” out into sea, transitioning from life into death. The Pilot is a symbol for God. Tennyson wrote that “The Pilot has been on board all the while, but in the dark I have not seen him. [He is] that Divine and Unseen Who is always guiding us.”
Lead singer and fiddler Rani Arbo, while a member of Salamander Crossing, the New England bluegrass band, re-arranged the poem and set it to her own music. A recording of the song – made in 1998 – can be found on their album Bottleneck Dreams.
Salamander Crossing disbanded in 1999 but some of the original members (Rani Arbo and Andrew Kinsey) still perform under the name Rani Arbo and Daisy Mayhem. Their version of the song is on the 2012 CD Some Bright Morning.
The song itself is strangely beautiful in that even though it is a metaphor for death it isn’t especially sorrowful. There is a touch of reflectiveness present.