For 10 points each, name this poem in which the speaker hopes to "see my Pilot face to face" after completing the title action, published last in many collections by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
James Kincaid calls this work a "poem of frustration," where Christian doctrine conflicts with an egoistic "pastoral elegy" in which "all nature mourns his departure," and whose pessimistic tone is shown by the "moaning" of the title object; this is at odds with the traditional reading created by its calm images of (*)"one clear call" and "twilight and evening bell." The narrator describes "such a tide as moving seems asleep ... when that which drew out from the boundless deep / turns again home" and asks that there "be no sadness of farewell" when he embarks. For 10 points each, name this poem in which the speaker hopes to "see my Pilot face to face" after completing the title action, published last in many collections by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
James Kincaid calls this work a "poem of frustration," where Christian doctrine conflicts with an egoistic "pastoral elegy" in which "all nature mourns his departure," and whose pessimistic tone is shown by the "moaning" of the title object; this is at odds with the traditional reading created by its calm images of (*)"one clear call" and "twilight and evening bell.
“Crossing the Bar”