Poem review: "Goblin Market" (1862) by Christina Rossetti.
Hello all! Do you ever feel you want something sweet? Do you ever want something you know you should not have? That is exactly what happens in Christina Rossetti's gothic poem "Goblin Market" (1862)… In today's review I am going to give my thoughts on Rossetti's poem of sinful desires and greeds. Here we have two sisters: Laura and Lizzie. When the goblin men tempt them with their fruits, Laura is interested. Lizzie however, insists that her sister should ignore them. This could be seen as allusion to Adam and Eve with Nachash the snake in the garden of Eden. This wanting of the bad fruit that a woman knows she should not have. Unlike Eve though, Lizzie does not get an apples on offer. Instead there are many other fruits for her to bite into. She tells her sister as such - ‘I'll bring you plums to-morrow Fresh on their mother twigs, Cherries worth getting; You cannot think what figs My teeth have met in, What melons icy-cold Piled on a dish of gold Too huge fo...