ext_2779 ([identity profile] esmeraldus-neo.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] alixtii 2007-10-03 02:50 am (UTC)

The same kind of reversal, or very similar, occurs at the end of Goblin Market.

It's a lush, layered fairytale until the last stanza, where Rossetti inserts a moral so saccharine that I can only think it's mockery.

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