Up-Hill
Up-Hill is a poem about someone on a spiritual pilgrimage, searching for somewhere to seek refuge from the darkness in their life. Significantly, throughout the poem Rossetti uses a Christian catchism (question and answer format) which could be to represent the fear we feel about death, and that God is always a guide through life to help us.
One of the most notable aspects of this poem is the way in which Rossetti uses landscape as a metaphor for a spiritual journey. For instance, "the road" is symbolic of life's path and "that door" represents the space between the living and the death.
Good Friday
- Important Christian day because it's the day Jesus died.
- Jesus is crucified along with thieves.
- Peter denies his friendship with Jesus.
The poem is about the speakers self-doubt because they realise their lack of emotions about Christ's death isolates them from everyone else because they're grieving.
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