{"id":486,"date":"2016-04-24T19:52:07","date_gmt":"2016-04-24T23:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/?p=486"},"modified":"2016-04-24T19:52:07","modified_gmt":"2016-04-24T23:52:07","slug":"i-ate-and-ate-my-fill-yet-my-mouth-waters-still","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/2016\/04\/24\/i-ate-and-ate-my-fill-yet-my-mouth-waters-still\/","title":{"rendered":"“I ate and ate my fill, yet my mouth waters still,”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Christina Rossetti\u2019s poem Goblin Market<\/em> shows the fear that women\u2019s sexuality brought upon men in the Victorian era as well as the fear of women\u2019s growing knowledge and awareness that was becoming prevalent due to access to education in the middle classes. Rossetti does so by dropping evident hints throughout the poem
\nusing fruit to ind\"tumblr_m9i2knYrk31re8d1to2_r1_1280\"icate the object being bartered which in this case is sex and everything \u2018unholy\u2019 that comes with being impure. I also think that because Rossetti would have been biased against men especially because of her bitterness towards not being a part of her brother\u2019s pre-Raphaelite brotherhood and so she might have used the evil, demonic goblins to represent men and their tendencies. Another hint would be Laura exchanging a lock of her hair for fruit from the goblin men. In class we talked about how lovers would carry around a lock of each other\u2019s hair-representing Laura having a romantic connection or affiliation to the goblins. I found this really interesting so I decided to look into hair in the Victorian era and what it meant in society and apparently hair also represented women\u2019s sexuality and empowerment because the longer your hair was the more fertile you were so by the Goblins taking a lock of Laura\u2019s hair could mean taking away a part of her womanhood- i.e. virginity and purity or taking away her wholesomeness an
\nd tarnishing her for future marriage. This poems takes the idea of sexual desire and appetite and instead of using men to show the \u2018forwardness\u2019 of desire, Rossetti uses female characters to have those traits. \u201cI ate and ate\u00a0my fill, yet my mouth waters still,\u201d in this context the author means sexually Laura couldn\u2019t get enough of the fruit (sex) but could also mean generally women are the same as men and have the same urges and should therefore be treated equally. Giving some idea of how Rossetti might have been seeking equality and standing up for feminism even in the Victorian era.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Christina Rossetti\u2019s poem Goblin Market shows the fear that women\u2019s sexuality brought upon men in the Victorian era as well as the fear of women\u2019s growing knowledge and awareness that was becoming prevalent due to access to education in the middle classes. Rossetti does so by dropping evident hints throughout the poem using fruit to … Continue reading “I ate and ate my fill, yet my mouth waters still,”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2749,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123782],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2016-blog-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2749"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}