Indeed if any single romantic poem can be said to be behind Goblin Market, it is William Wordsworth’s Nutting, also a sexualized coming-of-age poem in which intensity of feeling for nature climaxes in an unexpected sexuality which reverses into a sense of guilt and loss.Ĭlearly, the poem is about the experience of sexuality, and it also seems clear that the sexuality in the poem centers on same-sex eroticism. She also called it a children’s poem, and for her it probably was since, like her romantic antecedents, she saw childhood as a time of unparalleled intensity and experience. Analysis of Christina Rossetti’s Goblin Marketīy NASRULLAH MAMBROL on FebruĬhristina Rossetti claimed that Goblin Market was extemporized in a single day.
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