Laura and Lizzie, the two sisters, are the protagonists of Rossetti's poem "Goblin Market", Both of them are maiden, pure and innocent. While Lizzie holds on to her innocence and was able to overcome her temptation, Laura fell prey to the goblin men. The personality of Laura progresses throughout the poem, from naivety towards experience and then finally to redemption.
In the beginning of the poem Laura is portrayed as innocent until she tries the goblin fruit that takes away her innocence. The opening line of the poem, "Morning and evening; Maids heard the goblins cry" (Rossetti Lines: 1-2) suggests that only maidens are able to hear the goblin men selling their fruit. And Laura is pure and innocent in that she is able to hear them as she " bowed her head to hear" (Rossetti Line 34), and even as she perks up, she warns Lizzie, "[w]e must not look at goblin men; we must not buy their fruits" (Rossetti Lines 42-43). But later, despite of Lizzie's warning, Laura is amazed and wondered by the sight of the goblin men and their fruit, and finds their sound "kind and full of love" (Rosse...
In the summer issue of “Flare” Magazine 2016, Ellie Goulding reveal that she dealt with severe anxiety early in her career. The 29 years old British songwriter told the magazine that her symptoms were intrusive, especially since her career has took off.
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Of the two sisters Lizzie and Laura, Laura is the one whose curious desires get the best of her. She and her sister encounter the goblin men and Lizzie just “thrust a dimpled finger / In each ear, shut her eyes and ran” (67 – 68); however, Laura’s curiosity gets the best of her and she chooses to stay: “Curious Laura chose to linger / Wondering at each merchant man” (69 – 70). These goblin men are selling fruit, and once Laura gets her hands on it, she is hardly able to stop herself. Quenching her desire is overwhelming for her, so much so that when she is finally done she “knew not was it night or day” (139). When she arrives home later, she tells her sister, “I ate and ate my fill, / Yet my mouth waters still; / Tomorrow night I ...
"Goblin Market" centers around one girl who has a love for the wonderful, but does not realize that the wondrous is often disguised as the wonderful. While these two terms seem the same, wonderful is rooted in naivety and wondrous exposes the ways of the real world in a cruel way. Laura falls prey to the disguise that the wondrous puts on, and at the end of the poem, her entire belief system has been altered for good. Laura's ideas were based on the songs and stories she would have heard when she was younger, which places the goblins in a sense of the wonderful, though they are incredibly dangerous. The reader can see Laura shift from innocence to distrust and brokenness through the similes scattered throughout the poem as she starts out as something out of a romantic tale to a broken shell of a woman. Fairy tales that seem wonderful in the sense of gaiety, like how the goblins seemed at first, are reflected in the fourth stanza, while after the goblins have become more of the wondrousness of monsters, the simile in the third to last stanza shows how Laura has changed from the naive to being harshly reminded of the real world, no matter how fantastic it seems.
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...look" for the first time in her life. The Victorian element of the 1800s has been brought down to a more reasonable level through Lizzie. The wild feminist in Laura has been tamed by the life threatening experience and the overpowering devotion of her sister.
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