The poem 'Crossing the Bar' is traditionally placed where in collections of Tennyson's poetry?
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Correct answer: At the very end of all his published poems
Tennyson requested that 'Crossing the Bar', written late in his life, always be placed last in any volume of his poems. It serves as his final statement on death and his hope for an afterlife.
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