![]() ![]() ![]() The poem is about as daring as can be imagined, and it is protoFreudian in its evocation of dread, loss, anxiety, and sin in a context where two sisters (Lizzie and Laura) are sharing an experience of the awakening of desire. Indeed if any single romantic poem can be said to be behind Goblin Market, it is William Wordsworth’s Nutting, also a sexualized coming-of-age poem in which intensity of feeling for nature climaxes in an unexpected sexuality which reverses into a sense of guilt and loss.Ĭlearly, the poem is about the experience of sexuality, and it also seems clear that the sexuality in the poem centers on same-sex eroticism. ![]() She also called it a children’s poem, and for her it probably was since, like her romantic antecedents, she saw childhood as a time of unparalleled intensity and experience. Analysis of Christina Rossetti’s Goblin Marketīy NASRULLAH MAMBROL on FebruĬhristina Rossetti claimed that Goblin Market was extemporized in a single day. ![]()
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