Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti Pdf Marks 2
1. Who is the writer of the poem ‘Goblin Market’ and at what literary age of England?[Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti Pdf Marks 2]
The writer of the poem is Christina Rossetti and she wrote at the Victorian literary period of England.
2. What do you know of the parentage of Christina Rossetti? Can you name of her one brother who became a very famous poet?
Christina’s father was an Italian political activist who settled in London. Her mother was an English lady.
Christina Rossetti’s one brother Dante Gabriel Rossetti was a very famous the Victorian age and was instrumental in setting the Pre-Raphaelite School of Poetry and Painting.
3. What was the first callection of poems of Christina Rossetti? When was it published?
Christina’s first collection of poems was Goblin Market and Other Poems. It was published in 1862.
4. What is Goblin Market in Rossetti’s poem Goblin Market? What do you know of the goblins?
“Goblin Market’ in Rossetti’s poem Goblin Market is the place in the glen of the goblins to se! their different fruits and herbs.
The goblins are actually no real human beings or animals. They are imaginary creatures, used in the fairy tales and the Children’s books. Goblins are dwarfish, ugly and deformed creatures, prone to causing troubles and mischiefs to young and innocent maids and children in particular.
5. What did the goblins cry, when and for what?
The goblins cried for selling their orchard fruits all times, morning and evening. They asked maids in particular to come and buy their fruits and shrubs.
6. Mention the names of some of the fruits hawked by the goblins in their market.
The goblins mention the names of a number of fruits such as apples, quinces, lemons, oranges, plump, cherries, melons, raspberries and peaches.
7. What is meant by the cry of the goblins,”Sweet to tongue and sound to eye”?
The goblins are found to sell their wares at the market. Naturally, to try to highlight both the sweetness and the healthy quality of their fruits, they actually mean their fruits are both sweet and healthy.
8. Who are the two maids mentioned in the poem? What is their relationship? Who are their parents?
The two maids are Laura and Lizzie,
They are two sisters living together. Nothing is known of their parents who are possibly dead.
9. How those sisters lie together?
The two sisters lie together very closely like “two
on one stem”. The togetherness of the two sisters is emphasised here.
10. What domestic duties two sisters did?
Laura and Lizzie rose in the early morning to do their daily task. They fetched honey, milked the cows, prepared the cakes of whitest wheat and also engaged themselves in making butter and cream. They fed their poultry and did other necessary tasks.
11. What was the attitude of the sisters to the goblins at first?
The two sisters were very cautious about the goblins initially and tried to avoid them as far as possible. They warned each other against the mischiefs, usually done by the goblins to the maids. Infact they remained aloof from the goblins and their crying and selling.
12. Of the two sisters who had first gone to the goblins?
Though Lizzie remained far from the goblins, Laura gradually felt curious of them. She was actually drawn to them and wanted to have the taste of their fruits.
13. How did Laura come to meet the goblins in their market and how was she treated there?
In her utter curiosity, Laura came to the goblin market to have their strange fruits, but she had no money with her and frankly admitted when they received her cordially, that she had no coin. But the goblins agreed to give her their ware in the exchange to one golden lock of hair from her head. So she clipped a gloden lock and gave them and sucked their fruit, red and lovely, delightfuly. She felt that such a fruit she had never tasted before.
14. What was the final effect of the goblins‘ fruits on Laura?
Laura’s taste of the goblins’ fruits was a sin. It had a two-fold impact. She felt extremely desirous to meet the goblins and taste their fruits again, second time. She could no more see and hear them. Haunting by her intense desire, she grew ill and was almost in a state of dying.
15. Who did save Laura from the mouth of death and how?
Lizzie saved Laura from the mouth of death by boldly facing the goblins. They did not give her any fruit despite her offer of a silver penny. They rather tortured her and scattered and pressed the juices of their fruits on her face and body. Finding Lizzie too determined, the goblins disappeared altogether. Lizzie returned home and allowed Laura to kiss and suck all her body and face. Laura, thereby, regained her health and became lively again.
16. What is the lesson of the poem Goblin Market? Who did give it and to whom?
The lesson of the poem is given in the concluding portion in the expression”For there is no friend like a sister.”
This is spoken by Laura when she was a mother to her little children.
17. “Men sell no such in any town”-Bring out the implication.
This is a proof of the non-human qualities of the goblins. It indicates how the goblin’s market is markedly different from the actual human market. It is nothing but a fantasy market of imagination.
18. Who are the two Biblical characters used allegorically in the poem Goblin Market to represent the two main characters of the poem?
The two main characters of the poem are the two sisters, Laura and Lizzie. One of them tempted, tasted the offensive fruit of the goblins and became a sinner by her desire for further fruits. She was Laura. The other sister Lizzie, however, saved Laura by braving the goblins and suffering injuries, insults from them for the sake of her sisters. Laura allegorises Eve, a Biblical figure, who tasted the forbidden fruit and caused the fall of man from Paradise. Lizzie, the other sister, suffered and sacrificed for the sake of Laura. Here she almost allegorised the Biblical account of Jesus Christ, sacrificed for the redemption of man.
19. How Lizzie resisted the goblins whereas Laura failed?
Lizzie was able to resist the goblins and kept them at bay, for she went to their glen not with any desire of her own but with a keen longing for saving and helping her sister Laura.
20. Who was Jeanie? What was her ultimate destiny?
Jeanie is a tragic character (Jenny) of C. G. Rossetti’s poem.
She was a poor prey to her longing for forbbiddent fruits. She dwindled and grew grey as she pined for such fruits. Her unfulfilled desire caused her intense suffering and led her to death.
Lizzie too determined, the goblins disappeared altogether. Lizzie returned home and allowed Laura to kiss and suck all her body and face. Laura, thereby, regained her health and became lively again.
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