Goblin Market/Symbolism

Symbols in this poem vary from the substance abuse of fruits, the moon, flowers, sisterhood, money and water. Firstly, even though, the rubric of the poem Goblin Market seems self-explanatory, as we bear instantly assume that this poem is about a fruit-market which is run by goblins this sounds like its a poem which sounds like a fairy-tale/fantasy or mayhap a story which focuses on little kids. Although, it is strongly argued against that this Is not a story aimed at kids as most of the sexy-stuff which appends In the poem Is Implied, rather than It organism explicitly pull ind.This is because most lines are almost ludicrously-erotic thereby It gutternot be said that this Is suitable for It being aimed at young children/SLD. So we suffer Infer that this title Is precise deceptive as there Is a lot more going on under the surface of the Image of a fruit-market. Furthermore. The title Is very deceptive to the readers as from the title we are only told that the poem is about a m arket but we arent given much detail on hat type of market it is and what is being sold by the goblins.The underlining deception of this poem is that this poem is about the Victorian marriage-market which is a term referred to the underhand manipulations many hands and women undergo in order to marry and move up the hierarchy in society. The symbolism of fruit in this poem is that it symbolizes the temptation which is openly displayed in society. Alternatively, it could also be said that it is a metaphor for sex and because its being advertised everywhere it is being perceived as a product which can be ought.This refers back to the fruit being a huge temptation as the fruit Is a given object use In the poem to describe people who ready been tempted and given Into temptation. Rosettes states, In the poem In line 406-407 Held her hands and squeezed their fruits, against her mouth to make her eat. This is an intense imagery being pictured in the poem as the Goblins rich person pinne d Lassies hand and are now trying to force-feed her, the juice of the fruit.This thereby, can be argued that the rut is not in position the actual fruit but instead it is a figure of speech which is being used to describe the action of the intense image of violence and rape. Alternatively, the use of the flowers in the poem symbolizes the fragile purity of women who havent been married yet and have not given into temptation of those goblin fruit. However, in reality it is known that flowers can be plucked so in a sense this can represent the loss of purity from those individuals. The loss of purity can therefore indicate that the women have given Into temptation of the goblin fruit.Evidence of this Is given In the poem as Rosettes states In line 150-151 ate their fruits and wore their flowers, Plucked from bowers the use of the word bower can have multiple meanings as it can either be read to be a shady part of a garden or it is also used for suggested the loss of virginity when it says that the flower has been plucked from a bower Furthermore, this poem primarily focuses on female heroism and sisterhood as the main characters- Laura and Leslie- are both living in a fantasy parallel universe with a distinct lack of human contact with men.So thereby, we can read the poem by closely understanding the kind and bond these 2 sisters have. Rosettes states in the poem for there is no friend like a sister, this quote represents sisterhood as it infers that Laura and Leslie will ever so be there for each other and also it was with the help of Leslie that Laura was able to live a normal life after she had still given into temptation. This was stringently because of the fact that she was lucky enough to have a sister to redeem herself from being a similar tragedy like the character of Jeannie.