Goblin Market Flashcards
GM - rhyme scheme?
loose iambic tretrameter
GM - rhyme scheme effect?
iambic tetrameter, four metrical feet per line = rapid pace, spontaneity, -> tone of urgency
GM presented?
presented as a fable for children, juxtaposes adult themes - gross, unsettling
effect of “come buy, come buy”?
imperative, refrain, anaphora (repetiton throughout the poem), sinsiter tone, seduction
“come buy” in reference to?
Isaiah 55:1, “come buy wine and milk without money and without price” - God’s freely given grace, alvation
“come buy” in juxtaposition to?
Isaiah 55:1, juxtaposing spiritual abundance with moral corruption, divine grace vs dangers of earthly desires
“Apples” context?
No biblical specification, writers such as Milton - Paradise Lost, use the apple. All fruit in poem = fertility and temptation
“Apples” thematic context?
biblical Adam and Eve but as two supportive sisters, juxtaposes Adam who blames Eve
context of the fruits?
Rossetti contemporary - no legal restrictions on advertising Goblins represent falsity and dishonesty
technicality of the fruits?
compound nouns to compress and exaggerate “bloom-down-cheeked” “swart-headed” “free-born”. dense hyperbolic description, consonantly rhymed line endings, asyndetic list
effect of the fruits?
hyperbolic description = understandable facination, consonantly rhymed line endings reinforce the hypnotic effect, excitenemnt of asyndetic listing bc of no conjunctions
ripe
“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
bloom
“Bloom-down-cheeked peaches”
swart
“Swart-headed mulberries”
born
“Wild- free-born cranberries”
pomegranates
“pomegranates full and fine”, Persephone, sexuality, seeds..
bowed
“Laura bowed her head to hear”
Laura = Eve, listening to the serpent in Genesis 3:1
summer, cooling
“In the summer weather” to “In the cooling weather”
change in seasons stanza 1 vs 2, cooling = danger
clasping
“clasping arms and cautioning lips”
protect, alliterative c - rocking rhythm - nursery rhyme reminiscent, seeking comfort from each other
tingling
“with tingling cheels and finger tips”
very physical depitions, sense of carnality, sensual reaction to the fruit
pricking
“pricking up her golden head”
pricking - animalistic, beast. golden - materialism, just as valuable and tempting to the gpblins
look
“we must not look at goblin men”
voyeuristic, Garden Eden, tempatation, God’s warning
must
“We must not buy their fruits”
repeated command of “we must not”, supersition of faeries and control
soil
“who knows upon what soil they fed their hungry thirsty roots?”
corruption, greed, unnatural fruits, personification of fruits - eerie, sinister. phallic “roots, erotic, penetration
hobbling
“…call the goblins / Hobbling down the glen”
past - disability = punishment, goblins rhyme w hobbling
covered
“Lizzie covered up her eyes”
“see no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil” - three wise monkeys, powerful eroic tones
reared
“Laura reared her glossy head”
animalistic, untainted by contamination of greed/sexual desire stimulated by predatory men - No thank you John
