Goblin Men
...d the goblins so she could help her sister. Rossetti writes, “ Come and kiss me. Never mind my bruises, Hug me, kiss me, suck my juices… (466-468)” This passage of the poem implies that Lizzie had a strong desire for Laura in to want her. It appeared she had an oral fantasy about Laura. When Laura licked she did it with a passion for her sister. “She clung about her sister, Kissed and Kissed and kissed her: Tears once again Refreshed her shrunken eyes, Dropping like rain After a long sultry drouth;(485-490)” This scene from the poem could be interpreted as an orgasm during the sexual act. Laura once had juices again and it was pleasurable for her to have this feeling again. Many of these sexual scenes between thee sisters are within the poem, not only there is a lesbian theme, but a bisexual theme. When the goblin men gave Laura they watched her and became orgasmic by the way she devoured their fruits and juices. This could be thought of as an oral experience between the goblins and Laura. When she tasted their juices is when the goblins came to a climax and the sexual act between them was over. An experience like this one occurred when Lizzie set out to save Laura’s life, she allowed the goblins to spray all their juices on her just so Laura could lick it off. The experience that Lizzie had with the goblins appeared to be a rape. They, “Scratched her, pinched her black as ink, Kicked and knocked her, Mauled and mocked her…(427-429)” She resisted the temptation to fall into their evil fruit that they were offering. Even though the poem appeared to be sexual, the images of Jesus and Adam and Eve appear in this poem also. When looking at the character Lizzie is an emblem of Jesus and what powers that he contained. Lizzie resisted the temptation of the goblins fruit to save her sister Laura. From reading the poem Lizzie would have died to save Laura from the torture that she was going through. In her Jesus like image she was Laura’s savior, trying to die for the sins that Laura had brought upon herself. However, Laura could also be thought of as a figure of Jesus. She had virtually come back from the dead. “Till Laura swindling Seemed knocking at Death’s door: (320-321).” Whenever Lizzie came back to save Laura, she appeared to be on deaths bed, Laura defied death in this poem such as Jesus did on the cross. Laura barely had the strength to lick the goblin juices off Lizzie, maybe from the religious experience that allowed her to obtain the juices from Laura. Also, the presence of Adam and Eve are also apparent in this poem. The goblin fruit was considered the forbidden fruit. If someone would happen to eat the fruit, they would dye of a horrible disease, which they got from the goblins. The fruit in this story was the ultimate sin in the poem, like the sin of Adam and Eve. The same as Adam and Eve, Laura and Lizzie were told not to buy to goblin fruit. “ We must not buy the fruits: Who knows upon what soil they fed Their hungry thirsty roots? (43-45).” The girls knew that the fruit was dangerous, but Laura like Eve was the weak link. She could not resist the temptation of the fruit even though she had been told to stay away from the goblin fruit the luscious fruit appealed to Laura. Lizzie was the Adam character in the s...