Deconstruction of Christina Rossetti's Poem, Goblin Market

Over the years, poetry of the past’s decreasing attractiveness to modern readers has unquestionably provided several unequivocal and explicit truths regarding the state of the human condition. Christina Rossetti’s poem Goblin’s Market positions readers to challenge traditional beliefs and values held both in the Victorian era, and today. Christina Georgina Rossetti who was born on the 5th December 1830, lived to be 64 years old, and was a British poet, who wrote a variety of romantic, devotional, and children's poems. This poem in particular, was written well over two hundred years ago and still has extreme relevance to contemporary society as these feministic martyr-like women set the foundations for the feminism movements throughout history. These movements and messages are still relevant problems and are still relevant in today’s society and our modern way of life. Rossetti has written this poem with the idea to take the reader out of their comfort zone by writing about often confronting and taboo subjects that have become rarer as our history develops. As we see an increasing number of our modern poets write about vivid and obscure visual subjects it shows that we are no longer being brave by addressing these subjects and rebelling against the suppression and oppression of class, hierarchy, race and gender. Rossetti shows us through a number of poetic techniques, and beliefs, attitudes and values of forgiveness, independence and deception, that woman deserve equality in society.

Throughout the free verse poem written by Christina Rossetti, a dark mood is portrayed and through that it is evident that intuitions, feelings and emotions rule this poem, making it clear that it belongs to the Romantic period of the 18th century. The context of this poem also portrays nature’s transformative powers as well as hidden religious symbols, like the forbidden fruit and Laura’s obsession to consume it. Rossetti has used these symbols to render an exotic and visually...