Jonty Claypole
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And in the poem, it's Laura's golden hair that attracts the goblins and she has to cut off a lock and give it to them in order to get the fruit.
Another smoking quill here is there is in the poem when Laura has gone into this state of sex and opium withdrawal after the goblin incident and is wasting away, thinking only of the goblins and their fruit.
The other sister remembers the story of Jeannie, who was a woman who gave in to the goblins before and remembers what happened to Jeannie.
And I think, again, this is a reference to a long poem that her brother, Dante Gabriele Rossetti, was writing called Jenny.
The narrator of the poem picks up this prostitute called Jenny, goes back home with her, but doesn't do anything because in the poem he's positioning himself as the virtuous male.
Jenny falls asleep and he goes into this sort of reverie about what makes a woman become a prostitute.
And he leaves a coin for her.
He's a guardian angel and goes.
And at one point in the poem, he compares Jenny to his own cousin, Nell.
The line goes, of the same lump, as it is said, for honour and dishonour made.
So we've got this relationship of two sisters, one of whom is honourable, one of whom is dishonourable.
We've got the kind of Laura-Lizzie relationship.
It goes on, two sister vessels, here is one.
It makes a...
Boom, Goblin of the Sun, he writes.
So we've got our goblin there in Dante Rossetti's poem.
So I think Christina Rossetti's leaving all these little clues that this is a poem which is a sort of repast to the pre-Raphaelite brotherhood and their very aggressive sexuality and the way they treated the women around them.
How do I love thee?
Let me count the ways.
I love that.