Goblin Market Flashcards
What quotes to use from Goblin Market that links to the themes of loss of innocence / virginity / purity?
‘She clipped a precious golden lock, she dropped a tear more rare than pearl, Then sucked their fruit globes fair or red’
‘Sweeter than honey from the rock, Stronger than man-rejoicing wine, she never tasted such before’
‘Her tree of life drooped from the root: she said not one word in her heart’s sore ache’
What quotes in Goblin Market links to fallen women, e.g Jeanie and her loss of virtue, her dependence and her loss of fertility?
‘Do you not remember Jeanie, How she met them in the moonlight, Took their gifts both choice and many, Ate their fruits and wore their flowers’
‘Where summer ripens at all hours’
‘She pined and pined away; sought them night and day, Found them no more but dwindled and grew grey’
‘No grass will grow Where she lies low, I planted daises their a year ago That never blow’
‘She thought of Jeanie in her grave, Who should have been a bride’
What quotes link to the urgency and temptation of the Goblin Men in Goblin Market?
‘Morning and evening Maids heard the goblins cry: “Come buy our orchard fruits, Come buy, come buy’
‘All ripe together In summer weather’
‘Sweet to tongue and sound to eye’
‘Their hungry thirst roots’
‘The customary cry, “come buy, come buy” With its iterated jingle Of sugar-baited words”
What quotes are near to the start that exemplify the sister’s initial avoidance of the goblin men in Goblin Market?
‘With clasping arms and cautionary lips, With tingling cheeks and finger tips’
‘“We must not look at goblin men, We must not buy their fruits”’
‘You should not pet at goblin men, Lizzie covered her eyes’
‘“Their offers should not charm us, Their evil gift would not harm us”’
What initial animalistic imagery of the goblins is created by the 6 quotations all beginning with the anaphora ‘One’ near to the start of Goblin men?
‘One had a cat’s face,
One whisked a tail,
One tramped at a rat’s pace,
One crawled like a snail,
One like a wombat prowled obtuse and furry,
One like a ratel tumbled hurry skurry’
What quotes link to Laura’s initial defiance through the four similes all beginning with ‘like’ near the beginning of Goblin Market?
‘Like a rush-imbedded swan,
Like a lily from the beck,
Like a moonlit poplar branch,
Like a vessel at the launch’
What quotes link to the goblin men’s predatory nature after Laura initially attempts to defend herself in Goblin Market?
‘Leering at each other, Brother with queer brother; Signalling each other, Brother with sly brother.’
‘Men sell not such in any town’
What was Laura’s response to the Goblin Men’s cries ? (2 quotes)
‘Laura stared but did not stir, Longed but had no money: the whisk-tailed merchant bade her taste’
‘“Good folk, I have no coin; To take were to purloin”’
What is the goblin men’s response to Laura suggesting she has no money, (they say in unison) in Goblin market?
‘“ you have so much gold upon your head,” they all answered together: Buy from us with a golden curl.”
What did Laura do after she had her share of the Goblin Fruit (quote regarding Kernel) in Goblin Market?
‘But gathered up one kernel-stone, And knew not was it night or day As she turned home alone’
What quotes suggest Laura’s addiction in Goblin Market after indulging in the goblin’s commerce?
‘I ate and ate my fill, Yet my mouth waters still; Tomorrow night I will Buy More’
‘Silent till Lizzie slept, Then sat up in passionate yearning, And gnashed her teeth for baulked desire, and wept As if her heart would break. ‘
‘Day after day, night after night, Laura kept watch in vain, In sullen silence of exceeding pain’
What quotes link to Laura’s disorientation in goblin market??
‘And knew not was it night or day As she turned home alone’
‘Lizzie with an open heart, Laura in an absent dream’
‘Laura most like a leaping flame’
‘Her hair grew thing and gray; She dwindled, as the fair full moon doth turn’
What quotes demonstrate sisterhood in Goblin Market after Laura indulged in goblin commerce?
‘Golden head by golden head, Like two pigeons in one nest’
‘They lay down in their curtained bed: Like two blossoms in one stem, Like two flakes of new-fall’n snow, Like two wands of ivory’
‘Cheek to cheek and breast to breast Locked together in one nest. ‘
What are the two types of feet being alternated throughout goblin market?
Dactylic and trochaic
What does Simon avery write about commerce that is given value through its worth in money?
‘Fulfilment is its promise, desire its engine, and consumption its manifestation’
