What is the significance of the title of the poem "Uphill" by Christina Georgina Rossetti?

swarupdey,

Christina Rossetti’s nineteenth-century allegorical vision takes us on an “uphill” spiritual journey that is strenuous and wearying at best.

The one who asks the questions seems to be a searching, striving mortal, for he or she has not yet reached that “resting place.” The other speaker’s been there, whether it be God, an ex-traveler, an angel, a spirit. It is clear that the second speaker knows about this final resting place at the “inn.” Life is a road that takes “the whole long day” to bring us “to the very end.” The night is death that awaits us at the end of the journey. That journey, as seen by the earnest Victorians, is “uphill all the way”; it is a struggle to maintain highmindedness that leaves us “travel-sore and weak.” But the inn—heaven or immortality—provides rest and comfort. We will there be reunited with those “who have gone before.” There will be “beds for all who come”—meaning all those who earnestly seek for spiritual significance in their lives. (Those frivolous souls who spend their time carousing and sleeping off their hangovers are not likely to make it to that promised final “resting place”.)