Goblin Market Flashcards
How does the character lizzie relate to the religious meaning behind the poem goblin market
She act like a Christ like sacrifice
How is goblin market a more positive representation on Christina’s devotion
Hopeful tone as purification is reached on earth through the sisterly sacrifice
In goblin market What 3 quotes about lizzie provide a prayer like deference suggestive of avoidance of temptation through the sensory deprivation
“Bowed her head”
“Veiled her blushes”
“Covered up her eyes”
How is desire presented in goblin market
- sinful to be resisted
- addicting and invading
- enticing and hypnotic
Desire as enticing in goblin market:
“Sweet to tongue and…
… sound to eye”
- sensory language
- sibilance
Enticing and hypnotic nature of desire in goblin market:
“Taste them and try”
“Come but come buy”
Analysis:
- alliteration, imperative tone
- spell like chant, monosyllabic, hypnotic, fairytale like tone to cover underlying meaning
Goblin market: “She thrust a …
Dimple finger / in each ear, shut her eyes and ran”
Goblin market: “There fruit like…
Honey to the throat but poison in the blood”
Goblin market: “Dwindled and grew grey”
- internal + line alliteration
- transformation
- decay in beauty > + societal value + fallen
Goblin market: “Her tree of life drooped from the root”
- internal rhyme
- fertility
Goblin market: “Her hair grew…
..thin and grey”
Goblin market: “Knocking on …
Deaths door”
- liminal symbolism characteristic of Rossetti
Goblin market: “For there is no
… friend like a sister”
Goblin market: “For your sake I have…
… bared the glen”
