The poem goblin market was discoverd to be a metaphor for the temptation that a man potrays to a women. I believe rossetti is a femanist and places a very negative and grim view on men as she refers to them as "Goblins", she also potrays this view that men trhink only about sex as the line "come buy comeby" is repeated throught the poem highlighting that this is mens main focus but also the fact that she uses the words "
come buy" suggests rossetti sees them as cheap as you can "buy" that they have a price. Rossetti also uses anamalistic descriptions to describe them like "crawl", "snail", "prowled". This highlights just how snealy and slow they are, although she does say "must not look" which shows that there must be something attractive about them that you need to "cover up her eyes".
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