![]() They give her the option to use her hair as currency Laura pays with what herīody has produced to buy their produce. ![]() So, when Laura tells them she has no money, When Laura is alone, the goblins beg her to try their fruits, with one of them making her a flower crown as they huddle around her with smiles and song while other goblins areīrother with sly brother (Rossetti, 93-96), The sisters are wary that the fruits may harm them, but the mode of danger is not clear. The most overt example of sexual imagery in the poem comes from the goblins and their fruits they sell Laura and Lizzie know form the start that they should not interact with these goblins, and it’s at first puzzling how in nearly every mention of them, they are referred to as goblin men. These ideas are conveyed through Rossetti’s choice of words in how the goblins and their wares are portrayed, how Lizzie and Laura behave together, and through the structure of the poem itself. The journey they take not too far from their very home underlines the sexual dangers that young girls and women may go through, how lust can be confused for love and what the value of innocence is. ![]() Christina Rossetti’s “Goblin Market” shows the two girls finding the goblins, losing innocence, and in the end gaining not innocence, but something greater. ![]() “Goblin Market” is a surreal dive into stranger danger taken by Laura and Lizzie, the two sisters who are the main characters in the poem. ![]()
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