The Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti

We read an interesting poem in English literature this week, called The Goblin Market. Here is a link to it, if you are interested in reading it.

http://plexipages.com/reflections/goblin.html

I was surprised by the underlying theme of this poem, which was the empowerment of women. It would highly doubt that the poem was very well received by Rossetti's contemporaries at the time that it was published. The Goblin men in the poem represent the lying and cheating men who seek to get what they want from a woman and then discard her when they are finished. The heroine of the poem manages to outsmart the men. While, obviously, this poem appeals to me I cannot see it being very popular at that time.