Goblin Market

Question 1

GM - rhyme scheme?

Answer 1

loose iambic tretrameter

Question 2

GM - rhyme scheme effect?

Answer 2

iambic tetrameter, four metrical feet per line = rapid pace, spontaneity, -> tone of urgency

Question 3

GM presented?

Answer 3

presented as a fable for children, juxtaposes adult themes - gross, unsettling

Question 4

effect of “come buy, come buy”?

Answer 4

imperative, refrain, anaphora (repetiton throughout the poem), sinsiter tone, seduction

Question 5

“come buy” in reference to?

Answer 5

Isaiah 55:1, “come buy wine and milk without money and without price” - God’s freely given grace, alvation

Question 6

“come buy” in juxtaposition to?

Answer 6

Isaiah 55:1, juxtaposing spiritual abundance with moral corruption, divine grace vs dangers of earthly desires

Question 7

“Apples” context?

Answer 7

No biblical specification, writers such as Milton - Paradise Lost, use the apple. All fruit in poem = fertility and temptation

Question 8

“Apples” thematic context?

Answer 8

biblical Adam and Eve but as two supportive sisters, juxtaposes Adam who blames Eve

Question 9

context of the fruits?

Answer 9

Rossetti contemporary - no legal restrictions on advertising Goblins represent falsity and dishonesty

Question 10

technicality of the fruits?

Answer 10

compound nouns to compress and exaggerate “bloom-down-cheeked” “swart-headed” “free-born”. dense hyperbolic description, consonantly rhymed line endings, asyndetic list

Question 11

effect of the fruits?

Answer 11

hyperbolic description = understandable facination, consonantly rhymed line endings reinforce the hypnotic effect, excitenemnt of asyndetic listing bc of no conjunctions

Question 12

ripe

Answer 12

“all ripe together”

not all fruits ripen at the same time, but in diff seasons, fantasy world reinforces fairytale, too good to be true. “ripe” symbolises fertility

Question 13

bloom

Answer 13

“Bloom-down-cheeked peaches”

Question 14

swart

Answer 14

“Swart-headed mulberries”

Question 15

born

Answer 15

“Wild- free-born cranberries”

Question 16

pomegranates

Answer 16

“pomegranates full and fine”, Persephone, sexuality, seeds..

Question 17

bowed

Answer 17

“Laura bowed her head to hear”

Laura = Eve, listening to the serpent in Genesis 3:1

Question 18

summer, cooling

Answer 18

“In the summer weather” to “In the cooling weather”

change in seasons stanza 1 vs 2, cooling = danger

Question 19

clasping

Answer 19

“clasping arms and cautioning lips”

protect, alliterative c - rocking rhythm - nursery rhyme reminiscent, seeking comfort from each other

Question 20

tingling

Answer 20

“with tingling cheels and finger tips”

very physical depitions, sense of carnality, sensual reaction to the fruit

Question 21

pricking

Answer 21

“pricking up her golden head”

pricking - animalistic, beast. golden - materialism, just as valuable and tempting to the gpblins

Question 22

look

Answer 22

“we must not look at goblin men”

voyeuristic, Garden Eden, tempatation, God’s warning

Question 23

must

Answer 23

“We must not buy their fruits”

repeated command of “we must not”, supersition of faeries and control

Question 24

soil

Answer 24

“who knows upon what soil they fed their hungry thirsty roots?”

corruption, greed, unnatural fruits, personification of fruits - eerie, sinister. phallic “roots, erotic, penetration

Question 25

hobbling

Answer 25

“…call the goblins / Hobbling down the glen”

past - disability = punishment, goblins rhyme w hobbling

Question 26

covered

Answer 26

“Lizzie covered up her eyes”

“see no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil” - three wise monkeys, powerful eroic tones

Question 27

reared

Answer 27

“Laura reared her glossy head”

animalistic, untainted by contamination of greed/sexual desire stimulated by predatory men - No thank you John