Goblin Market By Christina Rossetti

The poem “Goblin Market” by Christina Rossetti included risqué language. Female authors such as Rossetti should be applauded for testing gender roles and for stepping out of the boundaries that society has given them, and I feel that her poem “Goblin Market” did just that. The poem begins with Rossetti describing the fruits that the goblins are selling at their market using phrases such as,
The main characters, Laura and Lizzie always pass by the goblins’ market when they go to draw water from a stream. They are constantly being lured in by the goblins to buy their fruits as the goblins say, This language by Rossetti can be seen as something more sexual than what she is actually writing and this was hard for a women writer of her time as women