Apart from displaying the speaker's wish for death, the poem also underlines her wish to be a man. ... As several critics have convincingly argued, Rossetti's poems on love and marriage challenge the patriarchal ideology of her time and suggest that she was engaged in a harsh analysis of the Victorian concept of marriage. ... In the poem "Goblin Market" we find Laura being tempted by the fruits of Goblins. ... The poem presents us with a male artist who has one beautiful muse who is subject of all his paintings. ... In the poem "Goblin Market" the cautionary example of Jean...

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However, Tennyson's oevre is too large to encompass every single poem poem of his. Thus, I will focus on one his early poem "The Lady of Shalott", considered as "art poem",which provides an insight into Tennyson's ideas on the figure of poet by portraying an isolated artist-like figure in conflict with society, in other words which represents best the charactersistics of Tennyson's artist-figures and Tennyson's internal struggle between "social responsibility" and "artistic detatchment"(alaya). ... (Arnold, "Preface to Poems&...

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