Goblin Market is one of Christina Georgina Rossetti's masterpieces, composed in 1859 and published in 1862 in Goblin Market and Other Poems. She was an English poet of the Victorian era, a time when the Bible was read primarily and frequently and people were too religious. Furthermore, it was the time of sexual repression, enjoying or talking about sexual passion was considered a sin. Furthermore, women were confined to the home and denied education: it was an era of male domination. The poem might seem like a fairy tale about two sisters, Laura and Lizzie, and their misadventures with goblin men, but it is very complicated. A deeper exploration is essential to decode his metaphors, as he used a wide range of metaphors as this poem was simply intended as a fairy tale. When discussing Rossetti's Goblin Market, numerous critical approaches are offered. Feminists believed that this was an effort to reconstruct women's roles and visions, they were also convinced that it contained a strong message of creating heroes. This is not the case, naturalists argue, because Christina used a wide range of natural elements, and they confirmed this with her early life in the country and some argue that she mentioned the infiltration of women into the capital market while talks about trade and markets. Some critics have also speculated that she incorporated the classical theme of temptation, fall and redemption, which is quite obvious because Rossetti was a religious woman. His poetry was also criticized for the extensive use of sexual language or perhaps it was just a fairy tale. But if we dig deep into the poem and his personal life, we can find the hidden epic allegory. An in-depth analysis of his work will reveal the thematic interpretation of the Christian faith... half of the article......November 6, 2010.Haller, John S. & Haller, Robin M. The Physician and Sexuality in Victorian America . USA: University Of Illinois Press, 1974. Print.Mitchell, Sally. Daily life in Victorian England. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996. Print.Milton, John. Paradise lost. Charleston, SC: Make Space, 2010. Print.Pearsall, Ronald. The worm in the bud. Toronto, Canada: The Macmillian Company, 1969. Print.Rosenberg, Carroll-Smith. Disorderly conduct. Toronto, Canada: Random House, 1985. Print.Rossetti, Christina. “Goblin Market”. Representative poetry online. 1862. University of Toronto Libraries. November 20, 2010. .Scholl, Lesa. “Fallen or Forbidden: Rossetti's Goblin Market.” Victorian Web. . Network. November 24, 2010.Tennyson, Alfred. The princess. 1847. Print.
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