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"Crossing the Bar" and "Dover Beach" are two basically unlike poems that have something in common. Both poems have different themes, but they both use the same metaphor. The ocean is metaphorically used in the two poems. In "Crossing the Bar", Tennyson uses the metaphor or the ocean to describe the barrier between life and death. In the poem, the speaker heralds the setting of the sun and the rise of the evening star, and hears that he is being called. he hopes that the ocean will not make the mournful sound of waves beating against a