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On "Uphill" by Christina Rossetti

The poem "Uphill" by Christina Rossetti describes life as a journey uphill towards heaven. A traveler asks questions about the difficult path, receiving reassurance from one who has experienced death. The road winds until the end of life, at which point one will find heaven. Death provides rest, and heaven offers comfort like an inn. All travelers will find company and open doors, with beds provided for all who finish their lives well through labor and good deeds.

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On "Uphill" by Christina Rossetti

The poem "Uphill" by Christina Rossetti describes life as a journey uphill towards heaven. A traveler asks questions about the difficult path, receiving reassurance from one who has experienced death. The road winds until the end of life, at which point one will find heaven. Death provides rest, and heaven offers comfort like an inn. All travelers will find company and open doors, with beds provided for all who finish their lives well through labor and good deeds.

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On "Uphill" by Christina Rossetti

In this poem, Christina describes life and death in a symbolicly way throuth asking
and [Link] are two speakers in the poem, one asking about the way uphill-the
apprehensive traveler, and the other answering whom I prefer to regard as one who has
experience death. So, the title uphill here indicates approaching eaven.
The first stan!a says that the road uphill is to wind all the way to the very end. ere,
the road is like a life"s #ourney, if you want to seek eaven, you shall encounter some
obstacles or troubles on the way. $nd in the %end&, which means death, you will find it.
'orn symbolics the sun and life while night implys dark and death, you shall pursue for
eaven from born till you die. I think the poest is also telling us that, our life time is #ust
like a day"s #ourney, it is so short that we should cherish it and make good ues of it.
In the second stan!a, a %resting-place& for the night indicates death also, because
when one is dead, he is usually said as in deep sleep. $nd heaven here is described as an
inn, where one can spend his slow hark hours.
In the third stan!a, there are also other travelers on the way which implies that on
the way to (ternity, you are not alone and you find company all the way. $nd the door of
heaven is always open to whom has experienced so much on the way there, so you don"t
have to stand outside and wait.
In the fourth stan!a, after one finishes his service and behave well, he will have a
comfortable place to rest, that is, death. %)eds for all who come& ,)eds stand for death or
can be interpreted as eaven.
The theme of this poem is that death is a way to leave for another world where we
can find peace and comfort, so it is not terrible. The structure of this poem is arranged as
a dialogue between a anxious traveler and a calm responder, so we readers may have a
feeling that one is *uite near to death and he is frightened while the other appeares
composed because he has experienced death, and he is trying to ease the seeker"s anxiety.
(very stan!a begins with a *ueston and ends with its answer, it seems that every
*uestion about death has an answer, so one doesn"t have to worry about that. $nd there
many phrases indicating that death is not terrible at all. +or examples, %of labor you shall
find the sum& and %beds for all who come& tell us that if one finish his labor and do good
things when he is alive, he can have a good ending of his life. $nd all men are e*ual in
the sight of ,od, so none of them will be ignored.

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