Blog post prompt for Christina Rossetti’s Goblin Market, Think about how bodies are commodified in this poem - pay specific attention to issues of markets and buying. What exactly is being bought and sold?

When i first read the Goblin Market, I could be wrong, but i definitely picked up on some sexual undertones. I don't know if the poem is necessarily implying things of that nature but they human body is very sexualized within this play. The way the goblins grab the girls, the way they eat the fruit, the girls are very objectified within the story. Also i believe that this is just the classic plot of the girl falling for the "forbiddon fruit" of a man. Girls are scene as not having strong wills, so they are easily tempted and swayed. She is selling a part of her body to the goblin men, then makes the sister do the same. She could have fruit from the regular market, but something about that fruit taste so sweet. I guess its all about girls behaving badly!