In class i studied this poem from a marxist p.o.v and for different parts i can see the relevance of different ways of looking at it but as a poem overall I see it as a femenist poem the way in which it seems like men aren't needed and before men came along everything was beautiful and special. lizzie and laura had "golden hair" but at twilight "when they hear the goblin men cry" everything seems to corrupt. Even at the end of the poem there isn't any mention of fathers when the two sisters have children and at the end things start to get better again its almost saying that men cause corruption women without them are pure clean. We could also look at this through the eyes of rosetti, she was a christian and maybe in this poem she is grouping the type of men who may steel the virginity from them that people outside the church will practise sex before marriage and from a moral view you will end up with no father for being tempted into the wrong kind of men. You see the moral as the sister"tell their children" but maybe the poem could be a moral to you women.
Women in this poem could be looked upon as naive and it could seem like rossetti is trying to tell women what looks good "fruit" is not always good inside, and the fact lizzie had to "cover her eyes" is almost like rossetti saying you girls are weak, hold strong. After writing this i think I have changed my mind and see this to be more of an instruction of awareness to women but also a moral to take away and I believe rossetti wrote it the way she did just to say look is this how I have to put it before you stupid women have to see.
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