Goblin Market Group at eNotes

The primary theme is redemption of a guilty person by an innocent one...

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 12:30:27 PST

The primary theme is redemption of a guilty person by an innocent one (eNotes). This is evident in Lizzie's helping Laura, who has lost her innocence....she has been completely taken by the sensual pleasures of the "forbidden fruit" of the goblins. Lizzie had to save Laura from dying and does so by resisting the fruit the goblins offer her. The goblins try to force her to eat it (a kind of rape, according to eNotes), but she...

What is one of the themes that sticks out most in your mind in...

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 09:51:17 PST

I couldn't figure out the answer? plesae help me

She thought of Jeanie in her grave, Who should have been a bride; But...

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:51:02 PST

She thought of Jeanie in her grave, Who should have been a bride; But who for joys brides hope to have Fell sick and died In her gay prime, In earliest winter-time, With the first glazing rime, With the first snow-fall of crisp winter-time.I want to know exactly how Jeanie died. I think this part creeps me out the most. She tried the goblin's fruit, and since the poem is often seen as an expression of sexuality and the dangers inherent in...

Goblin Market ..

Sun, 18 Jan 2009 18:50:44 PST

What is perhaps the graphic or most puzzling part of the narrative poem for you?

What is one of the themes that sticks out most in your mind in...

Sun, 18 Jan 2009 18:27:56 PST

What is one of the themes that sticks out most in your mind in Rossetti's "Goblin Market"? Why?

It certainly can. In this poem, the goblin men try to tempt the women...

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:41:59 PST

It certainly can. In this poem, the goblin men try to tempt the women to taste their fruit. They woo the women with grand descriptions of that fruit, making it sound as appetizing as possible. However, when women take the fruit, they are left abandoned and ill. It is the women's only salvation to resist the temptation.Therefore, the struggle is between the ability of the goblin men to seduce the women, and the will power of the women...

Can the poem "Goblin Market" be seen as demonstrating a power...

Fri, 8 Feb 2008 18:16:19 PST

Can the poem "Goblin Market" be seen as demonstrating a power struggle between men and women?