In "Crossing the Bar" Tennyson is complacent and receptive to death. In "In Memoriam" he does not accept death as the destiny of human beings.
Explanation:
In "Crossing the Bar" Tennyson is complacent and receptive to death. He accepts it as the final destiny of the human being and approaches the passage from life to death as something peaceful and that will be done without difficulties. In "In Memoriam" we can see a different attitude. Tennyson wonders about the existence of the human being and rejects that death is the destiny of all. He refuses the idea of sudden death and the abandonment of life, as if man was created solely for that.
