Personification

"But such a tide as moving seems asleep"

In the poem "Crossing the Bar" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, personification is employed to assist the speaker in progressing through the poem. The tide is personified to help show that it is deceptively strong. It seemed to have jumped up on the speaker all of a sudden. "When that which drew from out the boundless deep" illustrates that the tide blended in with the rest of the ocean. "Turns again home" seems to give the impression that it comes and goes swiftly because "home," to me, meant the bottom of the ocean. I thought that this poem meant that a sailor was embarking on a dangerous journey in which he wasn't sure if he would live. He "(hopes) to see (his) Pilot face to face" when it is all over. This also told me that his Pilot was someone who meant a lot to the sailor.