Up- Hill

Question 1

Title

Answer 1

Heaven, the process is difficult.
Repeated metaphorical path motif symbolises the simplicity of going down hill.
AO3- Bunnyan’s ‘Pilgram’s Progress’- allegorical.
1858

Question 1

Personas

Answer 1

Questioner- Worried, childlike naveity.
Answerer- Comforting (God?).
Call and response structure emulates Church.
Compare with SAOFTFOHT

Question 2

1. ‘Does the road wind up-hill all the way?”
2. Answers. ‘ My friend’
3. ’ Will the day’s journey take the whole long day?’

Answer 2

1. Childlike vocab. The euphenisms and metaphors deal with taboo topics such as death.
2. Subdues the questioner’s worries. Hypophoric structure. Sisterhood.
3. Equates to life, metaphor tired of the prospect of life.

Question 3

1. ’ slow dark hours begin’.
2. ‘you cannot miss that inn’

Answer 3

1. Euphemistic reference to death. Metaphor of eternity and the hours of temptation sent by God.
2. Biblical the ‘inn’ as the refuge for Mary and Joseph. Doubles High Gate as the refuge for fallen woman.

Question 4

1. ‘Shall I meet other wayfarers at night?’
2. ‘Then must I knock, or call’

Answer 4

1. Community, sisterhood, no isolated female.
2. No locked door at a Church, threshold image created through the door, subvert religion or succumb to it.

Question 5

1.’ Yea, beds for all who come’

Answer 5

Balanced dialogue throughout the poem.
AO3- 19th century Britain was a religious place, 16million people attended Church weekly. The fear of secularisation prominent in the Victorian era.
1. Heavenly reference demonstrates equality, gentle notion of social reform. New Testament voice.
AO5- ‘Rossetti does not preach she prays’- maybe she is praying alongside the reader/ questioner- stewardship.