*Rossetti: Goblin Market (Quotes) Flashcards
1
Q
MORAL OF THE POEM
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- When women allow themselves to be seduced by men, their lives are destroyed
2
Q
- Lifeless
- Has no life now she is not pure
- Damaged reputation
- Fallen women
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“Cold as stone”
3
Q
STRUCTURE
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- Varying metre
- Switches between dactil and trochaic
- Chaotic
- A struggle to maintain sanity > just like Rossetti and her religious struggle
4
Q
- Wants a new beginning - to start again
- Relates to Rossetti’s work with the fallen women
- St. Mary Magdalene Hospital offered this
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“Hoped for a root”
5
Q
- Sucking away her innocence
- Fallen women > lost innocence quickly
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“Suck’d and suck’d and suck’d”
6
Q
- Mature / Sensible / Careful
- Opposite to Laura
- Mysterious and spying
- Rossetti’s voice saying don’t become fallen
- Rossetti against men
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“You should not peep at the goblin men”
7
Q
- Pure
- Virgin
- Aspire to be like this
- Rossetti was a virgin because she never married > religious devotion
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“Golden head”
“Golden”
“Gold”
8
Q
- Desperation
- Excitement
- Like an excited child
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“Look, Lizzie, Look, Lizzie”
9
Q
- Metaphor (ft. swan)
- If swan’s partner dies, will never mate again
- Fallen women being outcast and can never be accepted back once their innocence “dies”
- Rossetti depression / emotional outbreaks due to religious obsession, lead to her never having sex
- Imbedded into this lifestyle now, can’t leave
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“Rush-imbedded swan”
10
Q
- Been shunned by society
- Outcast
- Lost her virginity before marriage
- The 90’s movie
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“She turn’d home alone”
11
Q
- Lizzie is an ideal Victorian woman > content with lifestyle
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“Lizzie with an open heart”
12
Q
- All “fallen women” can be redeemed > can have a new beginning / new life
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“Wind-uprooted tree”
