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Christina Rossetti (1830 to 1894, London) was born into a highly cultured
family. Her brother Dante, he painted numerous portraits of her, was one of the founders of the Pre-Raphalite movement. She is considered now one of The premier late Victoria poets. The Goblin Market (recitation time 26 minutes, I recommend the YouTube link in my post but I always suggest that you listen to more than one Reading) is her most famous poem. Rossetti put this forth as a children’s poem but it is much more than that. In my recent posts on poets, especially immortals, I’m largely just recording my impressions or reactions, there are serious lectures on YouTube and Home work Help seekers can just Go to Wikepedia.
Goblin Markets, set in an imaginary fairy tale like World, centers on two quiet Young sisters living my themdelves. One of the sisters buys, from Goblins, men with animal characteristics, fruit, paying with a lock of her golden hair. The fruit has a overpowring drug like impact on her, producing a state of euphoria. The other sister advises her to stay away from The Goblin men or a disaster may result. Of course it does not end here. The narrative plot is very exciting.
It is easy to give a sexually charged Reading to The poem, I accept The Logic of this Reading. Sex is a trap that destroys Young women. I was most struck by The beautiful use of rhyme, the images of the Goblin men, lushness of language. I listened to four readings, some have a scrolling text.
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it's a marvelous poem... CR has been much under-rated, i think...
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