Up-Hill by Christina Rossetti: Summary and Exercise
Over the course of a journey, the narrator asks her guide eight questions about the road ahead. The narrator asks if the roads are all up-hill.
Up-Hill by Christina Rossetti: Summary and Exercise
Main Summary of Up-Hill The poem is an exchange of questions and answers that compares life to a journey. The journey is uphill all the way, but at the end is an inn, a resting place, that cannot be missed and which has room for everyone. Summary Over the course of the journey, the narrator asks her guide eight questions about the road ahead. The narrator asks if the roads are all uphill and if the journey will take all day. The guide replies in the affirmative. Next, the narrator asks if there is a place to rest for the night and if the darkness will obscure said resting place from their view. The guide assures the narrator that there is an inn and they will not be able to miss it. The narrator's fifth question is about which other travellers will be on the road. At the inn, the narrator asks if the other travellers would prefer for her to knock or call out. The guide tells the narrator that someone will open the door. Lastly, the narrator asks if there will be a bed for her. The gu…
