What I’ve learned about Christina Rossetti is that her actual name is Christina Georgina Rossetti. Christina was born in London England on December, 5, 1830, where she grew up to be one of the most important woman poets of the 19th century in England. Christina Rossetti was known as a woman poet who wrote a variety of romantic, devotional, and children’s poems. Whenever Christina Rossetti comes to mind people will most likely remember her for her famous poems, such as, Goblin Market, In the Bleak Midwinter, and her love poem Remember. The web sources I used for Christina Rossetti were - http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/crossetti/bioov.html and - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina_Rossetti
Now on her poem The Goblin Market it’s about these two girls Laura and Lizzie who are sister hearing cry’s from goblins to come buy fruit from them, they ignore it but only Laura is tempted enough to go see what is going on. Soon enough Laura is being offered a fruit by a goblin. Laura not having any money offered some of her hair in exchange for some fruit, the goblin agrees and in joy Laura starts to eat the fruit on her way home. But after eating the goblin fruit she Laura starts to become very ill, and Lizzie being worried of her sister illness goes to the goblin market to find the source of her sister illness. When Lizzie arrives to the goblin market with only mere money. Additionally the goblins weren’t too pleasant with Lizzie attitude of nothing letting herself be tempted like her sister. The goblins start assaulting and forcefully trying to make her eat the fruit. While having her mouth shut, Lizzie was able to runaway with the goblin fruit juice around her face and body. As she gets to the house she now has Laura digest the remaining fruit juices in order for her to start her transformation of becoming well. Then as they grow from their experience and later on grow older and become mothers and wives, they now share their story to their children about the dangers of the goblin fruit and how strong there sisterly bond is.
From Christina Rossetti The Goblin Market, I picked up a few symbolism of imagery that she implanted in this poem. She wanted her readers to visualize, what was actually going on. Main symbol I found was obvious, “Fruit”. The Fruit resemble temptation and the desire of wanting more as being forbidden and the birth of evil. Sort of like the whole Adam and Eve story, where Eve was tempted to eat the forbidden apple, just like how Laura was tempted by the goblins to eat thier fruit.I honestly think this was just a poem that relates to Adam and Eve in a way. In my opinion, this poem has subliminal perverted imagery that gets across. But then again as I did, my research on Christina Rossetti her poem The Goblin Market was not entitled as children poem to begin with.
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