She is unable to look at the sun or the stars and not feel mournful over her situation. She speaks of how her passion for heaven haunts her.
It teases and torments her in it’s unchanging “tune.” The speaker is frustrated by the fact that even if she wanted to, she could not reach the “monotonous” round, moon. She is unable to even get close to the “nearest star” in the sky, much less God. It is as if all factors of God and man are working against her. As well as the fact that Earth is “set so remote” from heaven.
The poem begins with the speaker bemoaning the fact that “heaven built so far” from the confines of Earth. “ De Profundis” by Christina Rossetti describes a speaker’s longing for the joy and beauty of heaven and the impossibility of reaching it during one’s lifetime.
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