Poem: Uphill

Choose 2 critical approaches that you think could be used to analyze the poem you chose. In your post, explain how using each approach might affect your understanding of the poem. Would you focus on different parts of the poem? Different themes? Why? Make sure to support your claim with examples from the lessons, readings, and the poem itself. End by explaining which critical approach seems to be more suited to the poem you chose. Be sure to explain your reasons for thinking this. Please divide your posts into paragraphs for easier reading, and make sure to reference, paraphrase, or quote specific passages from the text to support and illustrate what you say. Up-Hill BY CHRISTINA ROSSETTI 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.