Uphill

• Sound concerned and seek reassurance 
• Other voice - kind, calm and comforting 
• Journey and road - metaphors for life
• Simple lexical choices - unusual for Rossetti 
• Vague description of the setting
• Upward progression of spiritual journey 
• Uphill - struggle or becoming better
• Emphasising the length of the journey 
• Resting place - security - love, reassurance, church, religion, family etc
• Second voice could be spiritual and possibly the voice of God
• The voice is self assured, calm and confident 
• Poem about trust, faith and belief