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Just read The Goblin Market and totally thought it was about opioids, but apparently it’s about sexual temptation. Do yall have any opinions on the poem?
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Anonymous 10w

It has a lot of interpretations. You can look at it from a sapphic lens, or a women looking out for each other lens. You can focus on the drug allegory, or study the folkloric structure. Goblin Marker is just neat that way. It’s not “supposed” to be about any one thing from a scholarly perspective. Like it doesn’t just have one decided interpretation.

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