english goblin market quotes y11

sacrifice quote w repeated imperatives and rhetorical question (did…)

did you miss me…hug me, kiss me, suck my juices / squeeze’d from goblin fruits for you

sacrifice quote w tone of obligation and enjambment (for…)

for your sake i have braved the glen / and had to do with goblin merchant men

desire and decline quote w biblical allegory and sexual tone (suck’d…)

suck’d their fruit globes fair or red…she suck’d and suck’d and suck’d the more

desire and decline quote w enjambment + moon simile (she…)

she dwindled, as the fair full moon doth turn / to swift decay and burn / her fire away

act of resistance quote w violent imagery (scratch’d…)

scratch’d her, pinch’d her…kick’d and knock’d her / maul’d and mock’d her / lizzie utter’d not a word

act of resistance quote w contrast and biblical allusion (like…)

like a lily in a flood — / like a rock of blue vein’d stone

restoration and redemption quote w imagery of renewal

dropping like rain / after long sultry drouth

restoration and redemption quote w declarative tone

life out of death