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7 pages in length. The symbolic nature of life's path toward mortality is made crystal clear in Christina Rossetti's Up Hill, Emily Dickinson's Because I Could Not Stop For Death and Walt Whitman's Darest Thou Now O Soul. On the surface, it might appear to the reader as though the authors are speaking of a simple journey that one has taken;
yet upon closer inspection, it becomes more and more evident that the journey is that which leads beyond this life. The reason why the student has chosen these particular poems is because they do not represent death in the typical morbid manner. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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is made crystal clear in Christina Rossettis Up Hill, Emily Dickinsons Because I Could Not Stop For Death and Walt Whitmans Darest Thou Now O Soul. On the surface,
it might appear to the reader as though the authors are speaking of a simple journey that one has taken; yet upon closer inspection, it becomes more and more evident
that the journey is that which leads beyond this life. The reason why the student has chosen these particular poems is because they do not represent death in the
typical morbid manner. I. UP HILL Coming to terms with death is not an easy task; however, Rossetti effectively demonstrates the concept of the afterlife being a far more
welcoming experience than life itself. The authors reference to climbing a road winding "up-hill all the way" (Up Hill) to the very top gives the reader the distinct sense
that struggle and strife is what one must go through as a means by which to reach the resting place that exists in the afterlife. It is from this
lifelong uphill endeavor that one has finally earned the much-earned chance to rest. Rossetti utilizes antithesis as a means by which to get across a "sense of complexity" (A
Glossary of Literary Terms) by exposing opposite truths, as it relates to her perception of death. Retaining ones dignity in the face of
death is an issue Rossetti addresses to the utmost. Because society is so programmed to construe death as a miserable and agonizing event, there is little room for any
positive associations. The author makes a grand effort at re-educating the masses as to the pleasantness and relief of moving forward into the afterlife so that when the time
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