![]() ![]() What these goblins represent is clear by their seductive, sexually explicit, description of their fruity wares: “Plump unpecked cherries /. The poem begins with the goblin men’s continual cry, “Come buy, come buy” (l. Lizzie appears as a type of Christ in her redemption of Laura, but it is a role that encompasses both earthly and spiritual redemption. Instead, Lizzie and Laura learn to embrace both their earthly and spiritual natures in traditional, Victorian marriage. This poem is a story of renunciation, but not one of denying the body and its desires in order to embrace the spiritual nature of the soul. ![]() In "Goblin Market" (1862), Christina Rossetti (1830‑1894) presents a story of two sisters who must endure carnal lust in order to embrace a higher and purer realm of sexuality: marriage. ![]()
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