"Goblin Market"
1. What does the plethora of images at the start of the poem accomplish?
2. Why does Laura, who warns Lizzie about the dangers of it, look at the goblins?
3. What images predominate in the descriptions of the Goblins? What is the significance of such images?
4. Why do the Goblins give their fruit to Laura?
5. How is the fruit metaphorical? Give specific details.
6. What is the girls' relationship?
7. What happens to Laura after eating the fruit? What does this represent metaphorically?
8. How might the poem reflect on Rosetti's life?
9. What are the effects of the very short lines in the stanza that begins, "laughed every goblin/When they spied her peeping;"
10. Why is Lizzie described as "White and golden"? Why does she refuse to eat the Goblin fruit?
11. What does the fruit on Lizzie's face accomplish? Why might it have that power?

"Eve"
1. What is the door at which Eve sits?
2. How is the focus in the second stanza different from the other stanzas? What does it accomplish?
3. What is Eve's complaint about Adam?
4. Why does she mention Cain and Abel?
5. What is happening in the final stanza and what is its significance?

"Thomas and Beuhla"
1. In The Great Palaces of Versailles we get two contrasting images of Beulah. What are these, and what do they tell us about her? What do they accomplish in the poem?
2. What is Beulah's attitude toward Autumn? Who might Autumn be?
3. In the Wingfoot Lake section what is the sigificance of Independence Day?
4. What does the line mean "(There was/the Nile but the Nile belonged/to God)"?
5. For what had Beulah been waiting "ten years ago"?

"No Coward"
1. What is the tone of this poem?
2. What image of God comes through?
3. What is the attitude of the speaker to death and judgment?

"Tell me Smiling Child"
1. How do the images change in the different stanzas?
2. How are the seasons acting in the poem?
3. What is the tone of the child in the poem?