![]() ![]() “Goblin Market” has been read allegorically by countless scholars, particularly in terms of gender and sexuality. ![]() Through Lizzie’s intervention, however (and, ironically, another taste of the goblins’ fruit), Laura regains her health, youth, and beauty. When Laura succumbs to temptation and trades a lock of her hair for a taste of the fruit “sweeter than honey from the rock,” she falls mortally ill (Rossetti 129). By Cailin Roles (MA ’19), Department of English, Kansas State UniversityĬhristina Rossetti’s 1862 poem “Goblin Market” tells the story of Laura and Lizzie, two young unmarried sisters who are tempted day and night by the cries of goblin fruit merchants. ![]()
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