Uphill by Christina Rossetti

Cathryn, the font is much TOO light, can't read a word of it. Can you redo?

Great Poem! Just like Ross'!

Do you mean Rosettie when you say Ross??

Do you like any of her other poems? Which ones?
MomCaT

It seemed to me as if Christina Rossetti was obsessed with death. Indeed, death was a recurrent them in her writings (though I confess to not reading her works too often in recent years) as was the idea of afterlife or reward. This particular poem (confession: I had not come across it before to my recollection) appears to be re that same theme as she asks, "will there be a reward, a final resting, a fulfillment after this great journey" {most likely, that great journey of life}. And, the reply (from an unspecified source or perhaps Source) is in the affirmative.

One of her most famous poems was re Sappho. Though it does not appear Sapphic in theme, her famous brother Dante Gabriel drew a pic that accompanied her work as follows,



Feminism does appear to have a profound influence on her work as does the ideas of her more famous brother. We have discussed the Pre-Raphelite school on other threads and they were comparatively opened minded in their views on that subject, considering it was the Victorian Age. Perhaps her biggest subject was the theme of love and unrequited love. Don't know why this could have been a problem for her as every caricature of her reveals that she was quite beautiful.