The Convent Threshold

Today in English we started talking about another Christina Rossetti poem, The Convent Threshold. It is the story of a woman trying to persuade her lover to repent his sins and join her in heaven, while fighting her temptations to sin. We were thinking about how voices, character, point of view, setting and destination impacted the story. We split up into groups and spoke about the poem. We found it a bit difficult because the poem is very vague, so we did a few points on setting and places, then switched to characters.
Setting and Places
We said that the poem was like Heaven vs Earth for the speaker, as she has to decide which is better, as her lover wants to stay on Earth (and I believe the sinful/rebellious part of her wants to stay on Earth too) and she wants to repent and go to Heaven, 'your eyes look downward, mine look up.' She also has a dream, which I believe worries her about her lover going to Heaven and becoming drunk on knowledge and her not loving him anymore. Rossetti also makes it at times like Earth is the better place, as the speakers lover is there and she believes that if she goes to Heaven without him, it will be hell for her as she can't live without him.
Character
The speaker is in constant conflict with herself for the entire poem, over which to choose - religion or love. She wants to repent back to her Christian, pure life, but she loves her lover so much - 'I prayed against my will.' She may want him to repent too, so everything in the afterlife will be perfect for her. This may parallel Rossetti's real life, as she had to choose between religion and love herself. However, she chose religion and refused to marry two men she loved, because they were a different religion to her. The speaker also has worries about decending to hell in her dream for the sins they commited - 'Crushed downwards through the sodden earth.' She also doesn't want to go to Heaven without him, which is why she is pleading to him throughout the poem to repent with her - 'How should I rest in Paradise or sit on the steps of Heaven alone?'