In the two poems, the journey is a metaphor for life and passage into afterlife. In Ulysses Tennyson talks about how his life is nearing its end and how he's old now while in crossing the bar he talks about dying and going into afterlife. Both poems use the motif of journey on open seas to describe venturing into the unknown, that is, how life passes quickly as a journey does and the next stop on the journey is afterlife.
That is difficult, I'm not exactly sure what the context is but... I would answer with the Nile River
The colonies had been practicing limited forms of self-government since the early ... persecution in England demanded the freedom to worship according to their faiths. ... The colonies along the eastern coast of North America were formed under ... belief that colonies existed in order to increase the mother country's wealth
I’m pretty sure this is true, because a lot of people lost their jobs in that time, he had to resort to living on a farm.
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