Goblin Market Post!

I enjoyed building the editions and renditions of “Goblin Market” in Cove. I was assigned to group four, in which we looked at “Goblin Market,” in the form of children’s books. I looked at Martin Ware’s rendition, in which I was very interested to see the how his images appeared to be very frightening and graphic. While using the secondary source, I was able to discover that he creates independently of the intended audience, therefore he did not create the images specifically for child consumption. I enjoyed this exercise because I was able to see how the poem has evolved through time, ultimately being part of the genre that is popular at the time. By this I mean that “Goblin Market” as a sexual fantasy was popularized in the 70s, when sex was at the forefront of culture. Overall, my experience with the poem has not changed, I just feel as though I am now more open to different meanings while I engage with it. When I first read the poem, I automatically thought it was about a young girl getting trapped by men who wanted her for sexual means, only to be rescued with the aid of her sister. I was surprised to look at it from a moral standpoint, that the goblin men do not specifically represent men, but represent evil temptations in general. 

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