Crossing the Bar

The tone of this poem is one of acceptance, even happiness. The speaker of this poem knows that death is coming, and is accepting of this fact. They are in fact happy because it shows that time still moves on. For with every bad moment int life, and equally good one occurs. "May there be no moaning of the bar, When i put out to sea"(Tennyson). One goes out into the ocean of choices of life, but one always ends back where they strted. With their Pilot, or creator. One hope that one will always find our way back, and that one has not miscalculated or chosen wrong. And because this spreaker has come back safe, they are content with their end.