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4.06 AVERAGE
4.06 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
challenging
dark
mysterious
reflective
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
LOVE
printed out a copy for my boyfriend to read so good
printed out a copy for my boyfriend to read so good
This poem actually made me wanna go back to reading again and for that I am so thankful.
dark
reflective
tense
I read it several times to get it all through and yet I think I couldn't do justice to this poem...superbly written... To get an elaborated meaning I wikipediaed rossetti and found that it might be directed towards the prostitures she worked for...how naive young girls fall pray to sexual exploitation and their suffering which mostly never cease after that.
But here what I liked the most is she ended this one with a positive note... Although one of the sisters take the bidding for another but it seems that she recovers and so the other one has a lesson which she can pass through her generations( this is all that I figured out though I might be wrong) no wonder this one considered the best one of rossetti. It might seem on surface a children's poem with goblin ,their market of fruits and their temptation but its much more deeper than you can actually see from surface...I came across rossetti through the room of one's own of Virginia Woolf where she had mentioned Rossetti several times and I was keen to explore why Woolf likes her works.I'm glad that curiosity got better hold of me coz I was on one point had predilection that this one will be overhyped but I was wrong. I enjoyed reading it and i was actually awed by it. One of my favorites and favorite lines-
“For there is no friend like a sister In calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, To fetch one if one goes astray, To lift one if one totters down, To strengthen whilst one stands.”
But here what I liked the most is she ended this one with a positive note... Although one of the sisters take the bidding for another but it seems that she recovers and so the other one has a lesson which she can pass through her generations( this is all that I figured out though I might be wrong) no wonder this one considered the best one of rossetti. It might seem on surface a children's poem with goblin ,their market of fruits and their temptation but its much more deeper than you can actually see from surface...I came across rossetti through the room of one's own of Virginia Woolf where she had mentioned Rossetti several times and I was keen to explore why Woolf likes her works.I'm glad that curiosity got better hold of me coz I was on one point had predilection that this one will be overhyped but I was wrong. I enjoyed reading it and i was actually awed by it. One of my favorites and favorite lines-
“For there is no friend like a sister In calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, To fetch one if one goes astray, To lift one if one totters down, To strengthen whilst one stands.”
The rhythm, the movement of the poem, the sexuality and the openings for a post-colonial reading...this poem is delicious!
emotional
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
N/A
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
challenging
dark
hopeful
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Rossetti’s ‘Goblin Market’ comprises of a multitude of folkloric tropes in order to denote the mercantile economy of (bodily) transactions underpinning the poet’s contemporary Victorian context. Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber, published in 1979, is a collection of fairy tales reformulating the concepts tackled here through a partially feminist lens, wherein the marketplace of exchange is evocative of the bartering Italian piazza. Moreover, the goblins’ ‘come buy’ (l. 3, l. 4) is homophonically resonant with ‘come by’.
‘Twilight is not good for maidens.’ (l. 144): This line, replete with a patronising sense of instruction, is indicative of the liminal borderland of the forum-like marketplace as an exemplification of the boundary that lies between the realistic world and the supernatural sphere. This notion is particularly poignant in the poet-speaker’s deployment of an enumerated catalogue of domestic conventions:
Laura rose with Lizzie:
Fetched in honey, milked the cows,
Aired and set to rights the house,
Kneaded cakes of whitest wheat,
Cakes for dainty mouths to eat, (ll. 202-6)
By listing out the two sisters’ daily routine in almost a chronological manner, Rossetti drags the readers back to the mundane triviality of the quotidian. With this being the case, it is unsurprising that Laura hastily defects to the lullaby-like enchantment of the goblins.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Bullying, Eating disorder
i'm not a poetry person, so i really didn't expect to like this. however, i found it really charming and a good lesson about capitalism, feminism, and sisterhood.