Of tendrils, leaves, and rough nuts brown One like a wombat prowl’d obtuse and furry, Ĭlick the tabs on the left to view each stanza. Her sister Lizzie comes to the rescue and helps her to see the error of her ways and together they serve the cautionary tale to future generations so that they might avoid giving into temptation. We follow Laura’s path into temptation and fruitily veiled lust, which sees her left destitute in the world and her craving unfulfilled. Although Rossetti presented it as some sort of poetic fairy tale, it is widely accepted as a deeply sexual work, which explores a common theme of Rossetti’s – the fate of the fallen woman. The poem is about temptation, fall and redemption. Goblin Market is the biggest poem I’ve ever analysed – at a whopping 29 stanzas and something like 3000 words.
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