Christina Rossetti's Life After Death And Goblin Market
Christina Rossetti has an essence of vulnerability and reality in her poems. Her philosophical approach to the different aspects of life give a new sight and perspective to the readers. Her poems like “Life after Death”, “Death before Death” and “Goblin Market” gives the philosophical message that human limitations never allow the human to understand the meaning of life. This poem is a Biblical reference, which reflects the image of ‘forbidden apple’ in the story of Adam and Eve. The main theme of this poem is that sexual desires are the trap of human life which divert the human from the path of enlightenment. Although, the structure of the poem represents it as a children’s poem but the highly-sensualized imagery and language through the use