Up-Hill

• Journey of life - a road - uphill
• Uphill journey to afterlife
• Straightforward lexical choices
• Naturalist, obvious, common
• Hard to imagine - not a lot of description
• Uphill - getting higher, better - struggle
• Weariness in first stanza
• Emphasises the length
• Worked with people worse off than her
• Resting place - security - might be love - church, faith, religion
• Those who have gone before - dead people - memories - souls
• Who is the second voice? Voice of God? Faith?
• Religious journey
• Poem about faith and reasurance
• Beds for all who come - place for you as long as you can accept faith