This poem is about two sisters the goblin men and Jeanie. They lived together and were used to getting water from the every evening from the stream were the goblin merchants would offer to sell them all types of fruit. As the poem cities one night Laura waited for her sister to leave and went to buy some fruits having no money with her, instead she offered a lock of her hair and a tear. She eats the fruit and one of the seeds then returns home. Lizzie the wiser sister remind her about what happened to Jeanie another girl who eaten the fruits from the goblins. Things were different for Laura tonight. Instead of hearing the goblins happy and offering delicious fruits they were crying and chanting and to her horror she realizes that Lizzie can still hear them like she did the day before, welcoming charming and inviting. Unable to buy the fruits she starts showing the same symptoms that Jeanie did after she eaten the fruit. She stopped doing the household works, was depressed and deteriorating. She remembered the seed that she saved and went to plant it but it bared nothing. After some time Lizzie realizes that her sister is in the verge of death. As a good, caring and always cautions Lizzie goes to get some fruits from the goblin with money. At first they greet her like they do with every first times but then they turn malicious when she offers them money for the fruits and to take them home with her.
The goblins try and force her to eat the fruits, they drench in juice so she could get a taste of them. Like a good sister she runs home hoping that Laura can drink some of her juice from her body. She does so and she undergoes a violent transformation but as the story tells she returns to her usual self the next day and they live happily ever after. Wary of the danger they face from the goblin men and their irresistible fruits they have to offer.
In the first line we have two symbols Morning which means new, fresh, untainted, and Evening which could be interpreted as darkness, mystery, evil or danger.
On the second line we have Maids in this case submissive, inferior, pure, and innocent.
In the third line you hear the goblin calling come buy our orchid fruits, come buy. Here we have fruits which can be associated with forbidden, the birth of evil, nourishing, sweet and orchid which could represent love, luxury, beauty and strength which leads to peoples temptations to have them like Laura when she buys the fruit.
In line sixteen the symbol of summer is shown which could mean bright, full of sun and light, warm, freedom, swimming, greenery just another way to disguise the reality of things to come if you buy fruits from the goblins.
Thirty-three the symbol Brookside is used which is the beginning of life. Water was present before the formation of Heaven & Earth, and water is the birth of life, necessary for survival and formation which could mean that the goblins were trying to interrupt that by plotting to kill the sisters like they did with the other girl.
Sixty-six has the symbol of Evil gifts which could be understood as forbidden pleasures, unwanted pleasures that we know are bad for us but we still want to try out. In this case it was the fruits which the goblins were offering which can be associated with the forbidden tree in Adam and Eve as I explained below.
Line eighty-two has Swan as a symbol which here could mean, Curiosity. Here the author is showing us how curios and tempted Laura was from all the fruits the goblins were offering.
Line eighty-eight Goblins could be symbolized as a grotesque sprite or elf that is mischievous or malicious or deceiving as it shows on the poem.
Eighty-nine the symbol cry is used which could be mournful, depressing, the loss of water or it can also be a way into trick the others to feel bad about you and buy the fruits or the goblins are offering.
Tear is another symbol used and can be related to something of value a pearl. It’s like she’s selling her body for the forbidden fruits (one hundred twenty-seven).
On the second line we have Maids in this case submissive, inferior, pure, and innocent.
In the third line you hear the goblin calling come buy our orchid fruits, come buy. Here we have fruits which can be associated with forbidden, the birth of evil, nourishing, sweet and orchid which could represent love, luxury, beauty and strength which leads to peoples temptations to have them like Laura when she buys the fruit.
In line sixteen the symbol of summer is shown which could mean bright, full of sun and light, warm, freedom, swimming, greenery just another way to disguise the reality of things to come if you buy fruits from the goblins.
Thirty-three the symbol Brookside is used which is the beginning of life. Water was present before the formation of Heaven & Earth, and water is the birth of life, necessary for survival and formation which could mean that the goblins were trying to interrupt that by plotting to kill the sisters like they did with the other girl.
Sixty-six has the symbol of Evil gifts which could be understood as forbidden pleasures, unwanted pleasures that we know are bad for us but we still want to try out. In this case it was the fruits which the goblins were offering which can be associated with the forbidden tree in Adam and Eve as I explained below.
Line eighty-two has Swan as a symbol which here could mean, Curiosity. Here the author is showing us how curios and tempted Laura was from all the fruits the goblins were offering.
Line eighty-eight Goblins could be symbolized as a grotesque sprite or elf that is mischievous or malicious or deceiving as it shows on the poem.
Eighty-nine the symbol cry is used which could be mournful, depressing, the loss of water or it can also be a way into trick the others to feel bad about you and buy the fruits or the goblins are offering.
Tear is another symbol used and can be related to something of value a pearl. It’s like she’s selling her body for the forbidden fruits (one hundred twenty-seven).
The archetypes in the Goblin Market are Laura, Lizzie, the children and goblin men. Laura can be identified as the one who's easy to deceive one who trades her body for her desires like mentioned above this could have something to do with the writer working in whore house and also with eve and the forbidden fruits. Lizzie is the one who's always on the lookout and wary of the situation and also insisting toward her sister to not get fooled by the goblins. She could be associated with Jesus like being the savior or the man of the house since she was the responsible one and had no parents to look out for them but she was also kind and forgiving and had a lot of love for her sister to the extent were she was risking her own life to save another. The goblins can be associated with many things like the snake at the forbidden tree or the devil trying to control the weak people mind by offering them health and prosperity for their souls like when they did not take money but wanted something more personal like hair or parts of their soul etc. In the ends good prevails through the birth of their kids and wary of the risks of the goblin they tell their kids their stories. Family is such a strong bond that most of us would anything to save each other and that’s my understanding here so far. Jesus sacrificed himself to save us and we would have no boundaries to what we do when a family member is in peril.
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