Goblin Market

We’ve all heard the tales of the siren’s song leading men to their watery graves in pursuit of the mysterious attractive women, but what strange beast would lure a woman in such a fashion. For Christina Rossetti it would be *checks notes* little goblins selling fruit. So begins her epic poem, Goblin......more

Now this was an interesting poem, and one that can be interpreted several ways. Personally, I took it as a suggestion that Victorian women should behave like ladies, and should resist the advance of men who only want them for sex. This makes the men wicked; thus, they were represented as Goblins. Th......more

Who would ever have dared to guess that 'fruit talk' could be so very suggestive of so many varied things! Wow! Q: One had a cat’s face, One whisk’d a tail, One tramp’d at a rat’s pace, One crawl’d like a snail, (c) Q: “Dear, you should not stay so late, Twilight is not good for maidens; Should not loiter i......more

The intellectual critic is able to remove himself from this poem's pomophilic lesbianism and focus on an analysis of the many literary elements present. The lesser man simply counts himself lucky to find two such beautiful events in utopic cohabitation.......more