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I think i need someone to suggest to me the intention of 'uphill'
and also the symbolic meaningand surface meaning of the poem.



:) thx even if you attempt to answer

also to add, the poem goes....

Uphill

Does the road wind up-hill all the way?
Yes, to the very end.
Will the day's journey take the whole long day?
From morn to night, my friend.

But is there for the night a resting-place?
A roof for when the slow dark hours begin.
May not the darkness hide it from my face?
You cannot miss that inn.

Shall I meet other wayfarers at night?
Those who have gone before.
Then must I knock, or call when just in sight?
They will not keep you standing at that door.

Shall I find comfort, travel-sore and weak?
Of labour you shall find the sum.
Will there be beds for me and all who seek?
Yea, beds for all who come.

-- Christina Rossetti

I got it - that house with the red light out front, somewhere in Texas I think.

Intention is what did Rossetti mean with this poem- was she just earning money? is she sending a message? etc.

Which leads to symbolic versus surface meaning-

Surface is 'Look, here's a road, and I'm describing it.' That's what the fast read tells us. Now think about what she REALLY meant. That's the symbolic meaning.

pam

The road stands for the road of life,and the inn at the end is death. christina Rossetti wasnt scared of death because she was a christian and did not put death into a morbid view,because she knew that death had no hold on her,and she would be living with God for eternity.