Last lesson our class looked at the poem by Christina Rossetti called "the convent threshold". I was at first unsure of the poems destination and of the morals included, but after lots of discussion with my class, I now understand a little more.
For example, the poem is written in first person, as the speaker says "I choose", which suggests that the poem is a kind of siloliquey. Also, the poem is all about heaven and Earth, and how the speaker wanst something more than life; something unearthly. However, the poem is also about redemption, (an on going theme for Christina Rossetti), as the speaker seems to want to go to heaven as she has sinned.
The poem is about love, too, because the story line is of a women who has perhaps lost her virginity before marriage, and now wants to be "unified" up in heaven.
This appears to be a controversal issue, though, as the male in the poem is described as looking "earthward", which suggests that he does not have the same religion, or any at all, which is also a sin, through christina Rossettis eyes.
