- The poem ‘Goblin Market’ starts with the goblin men. They are trying to sell their fruits by advertising them to anyone within ear shot.
- Rossetti then introduces the two sisters, Laura and Lizzie, and Lizzie was trying to stay out of ear shot whereas Laura wants to listen to them. Lizzie then starts trying to convince Laura not to buy any of their fruit and tells her she ‘should not peep at the goblin men’.
- Now the goblin men are nearing Lizzie and Laura, and Lizzie decides to run but Laura stays still and ‘stretched her gleaming neck’.
- The goblin men have reached Laura, and she tells them that she ‘has no coin’ and so instead of money they offer her the fruit for some of ‘gold upon her head’.
- When Laura had finished her fruit, Lizzie met her at the gate and reminded her of ‘Jeanie’, another woman who ate the goblin’s fruit but then she ‘pined and pined away’.
- Lizzie and Laura both started doing chores the next morning, although Laura was ‘longing for the night’ so she could find the goblin men.
- Lizzie then hears the goblin men and tells Laura to come with her so they can get some fruit. However, Laura turns ‘cold as stone’ because she cannot hear the cry of the goblins.
- Laura no longer awaits the goblin men’s cry, and instead she ‘dwindles as the fair full moon doth turn’. Although, when the moon comes out her hair grows grey and thin. Laura is also not able to do any more work as she ‘no more swept the house’ and she ‘would not eat’.
- Lizzie has now set out to find the goblin men so she can buy some of their fruits to try and save her sister. This can be interpreted as a god-like action as she is risking her life by getting closer to the temptations in order to keep her sister happy.
- The goblin men are trying to make Lizzie eat the fruit, and they have ‘Clawed her with their nails’ and ‘Tore her gown and soiled her stocking’ Lizzie however, did not open her mouth to the goblin men.
- Lizzie has now come back from being vigorously attacked by the goblin men, and she has the fruit juice all over her face and Laura kisses her, this caused ‘her lips to begin to scorch’.
- Laura and Lizzie are both now wives and parents as Laura ‘awoke as from a dream’. This can be interpreted as Lizzie saved Laura by risking her life by finding the goblin men, and so it gives Laura the sense of guilt as someone else could have ruined their life to save her. This symbolises the fact that Jesus Christ out himself in danger for his people, and although he died it still symbolises the fact he risked his life to save us.
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