#8

The tone in "Crossing the Bar" is accepting and almost hopeful. The speaker is clearly about to die. He uses the sandbar as a metaphor for death. Once he's past the sandbar, he cannot turn back. When one describes death, a sad tone would be expected, but the speaker seems to be telling the people he's close to not to mourn. He tells them that he's going to meet God, and he's accepted that. Everything beyond the sandbar, I think, is heaven, so the speaker isn't sad that that's where he's headed. He doesn't use ominous or dark words to describe death, so his tone must be at least accepting if not hopeful.