Another symbolic way that the poem does to connect with the religious theme, is a day and night symbol to connect with the light and dark, the good and the bad. The speed of the time, comes as a day’s journey or a life’s journey, Christina Rossetti says “from morn to night“ and “slow dark hours begin”, as one rest after the sun starts to go down, the battle between the good and evil, as the light meaning heaven, the light at the end of the tunnel, or rebirth and dark meaning hell or a negative outcome. Zasadinski says, “Symbolically, "day" signifies light, vision, awareness, warmth, and, if one extends the metaphor to include daybreak, rebirth. Each of these attributes might easily be used to describe a positive view of the afterlife. Instead,Christina equates the afterlife in "Up-Hill" with night and its sinister connotations of blindness, ignorance, and even oblivion. This heterodox vision is further emphasized by (6) "A roof for when the slow dark hours begin.(Zasadinski vol. IV).
