The “Goblin Market”

In Christina Rosseti’s “Goblin Market” she talks about about FRUIT! A lot of sexually explicit parts of the poem were explained by FRUIT which seemed to… SO MANY DIRTY JOKES! UH! The fruit was… sucked? Well, the woman’s virginity was described as a FRUIT. but surprisingly not as a cherry (not to be too “gross”). Even though it was meant to be a somewhat sad poem, the way Mrs. Vance said “FRUIT!” made it very funny, and the description she provided. It could definitely relate to today’s society in that if a woman is no longer a virgin and is known to have slept with two or more men it is very unlikely that she will marry or remarry. Some people are not very picky though, but many are. Truthfully, teens both male and female have some form of an expectation to get “laid” on prom night, while of course with women it is less of a thing while with men they will relentlessly tease each other while secretly some are still virgins as well. The FRUIT would still have to in my mind represent the virginity. Of course the story talks about sucking fruit and having it in her face, something I couldn’t stop laughing about. Perhaps I did not hear the story clearly but that is definitely how it sounded to me. The story was very important to the Victorians, but is just as important today as we do have this same type of idea just not as seriously as the Victorians did.