Thursday, September 30, 2010

Pass the point of no return

Yet another poem spent talking about death. A journey to the "boundless deep" or a "home". In this poem Tennyson seems to paint this picture where death is a journey on the sea. He spends his life but at some point the tide causes to reach his destination. He doesn't wish to have a painful death. Also wishes to go without sorrow (similar to the poem we read earlier but this time the end of the poem is death). But this guy is on a boat, living his life and he just makes death seem as another adventure, the next journey. It isn't negative, thus the tone of this poem is hopeful of death, and not scared. So once this man embarks on this journey, called by the sun stars and sea may he rest peacefully. For when he crosses the bar.

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