English 2307E Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Consumerism, Syphilis, Eucharist

• School: Western University
• Department: English
• Course: English 2307E
• Professor: Krista Lysack

Document Summary

Pre-raphaelite paintings are popular because they are lush . The painting on the cover of your text is a pre-raphaelite painting. Sometimes the paintings may look like they"re set in a medieval past, but there is no specificity (we don"t know exactly where we are in history) It is an unspecified, fairy tale place: rossetti"s poem, goblin market is seen as a good representation of a. Pre-raphaelite painting (a long and lush list of exotic fruits) There are erotic undertones with an implicit sexuality. Sensuous images, but not in an overt manner. 3 interpretations of goblin market : religious allegory of the fall and redemption. It wouldn"t have been viewed this way at the time the poem was written, but this review has come up recently. In this view it is a cautionary tale of the dangers of exercising your sexuality, but it is also a poem about redemption.