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4.06 AVERAGE
4.06 AVERAGE
challenging
dark
hopeful
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
mysterious
reflective
adventurous
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
adventurous
dark
hopeful
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Strong character development:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
fast-paced
Highly suggestive and allegorical. The play with language is so vivid and magical that you can almost taste all those fruits and hear the way the goblins sing/chant those verses.
The sisterhood theme was fresh and enjoyable. However, be mindful of the antisemitism in this poem when reading it, and if you like it, I suggest trying to find retellings that avoid these harmful stereotypes and preferably, written by jewish authors.
The sisterhood theme was fresh and enjoyable. However, be mindful of the antisemitism in this poem when reading it, and if you like it, I suggest trying to find retellings that avoid these harmful stereotypes and preferably, written by jewish authors.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Antisemitism
adventurous
lighthearted
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
She cried, “Laura,” up the garden,
“Did you miss me?
Come and kiss me.
Never mind my bruises,
Hug me, kiss me, suck my juices
Squeez’d from goblin fruits for you,
Goblin pulp and goblin dew.
Eat me, drink me, love me;
Laura, make much of me;
For your sake I have braved the glen
And had to do with goblin merchant men.”
How was this ever considered a children's poem? You have to have a very innocent mind to only see the fruit on display, and not notice the juices being sucked from women's bodies - juices produced by the goblin merchant men's fruits.
It's a wicked poem; wicked, dirty, lush, beautiful, poignant and fun. It's twisted and dark and full of sisterly love. You should definitely read it, even if you never read poetry (I never read poetry, but I'm now thinking that might be a mistake. This one I could listen to on a loop.)
“Did you miss me?
Come and kiss me.
Never mind my bruises,
Hug me, kiss me, suck my juices
Squeez’d from goblin fruits for you,
Goblin pulp and goblin dew.
Eat me, drink me, love me;
Laura, make much of me;
For your sake I have braved the glen
And had to do with goblin merchant men.”
How was this ever considered a children's poem? You have to have a very innocent mind to only see the fruit on display, and not notice the juices being sucked from women's bodies - juices produced by the goblin merchant men's fruits.
It's a wicked poem; wicked, dirty, lush, beautiful, poignant and fun. It's twisted and dark and full of sisterly love. You should definitely read it, even if you never read poetry (I never read poetry, but I'm now thinking that might be a mistake. This one I could listen to on a loop.)
adventurous
challenging
dark
mysterious
fast-paced