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- Title
Rehearsing Social Justice: Temporal Ghettos and the Poetic Way Out in "Goblin Market" and "The Song of the Shirt".
- Abstract
This essay presents a critique of the Victorian poems "Goblin Market," by Christina Rossetti, and "The Song of the Shirt," by Thomas Hood, focusing on their engagement with themes of social justice. Topics addressed include description of how each poem characterizes factory labor, how figures of speech like rhyme and repetition are used to illustrate the concept of constant work, and the conception of time in 19th-century England.
- Subjects
GOBLIN Market (Poem); SONG of the Shirt, The (Poem : Hood); ROSSETTI, Christina Georgina, 1830-1894; HOOD, Thomas, 1799-1845; 19TH century English poetry; LITERARY criticism; WORKING class in literature; SOCIAL aspects of time; FIGURES of speech; VICTORIAN (Literary period)
- Publication
Victorian Poetry, 2015, Vol 53, Issue 2, p151
- ISSN
0042-5206
- Publication type
Poetry Review
- DOI
10.1353/vp.2015.0009