Week 5 Post

Hey there!!  Posting for my UCO class, anyone reading this??  This week we had an interesting poem called "Goblin Market" by Christina Rossetti that portrayed a horrible beating.  This poem was published in the 1862, only a few years ago ;-).  My question is, what in the world was going on then to fiend such a rendering??  It really gets the meat of the beating, very detailed.  And to top it off, it was originally a children's poem.  If this was read to me as a child, I would have hid my head under the covers for a month.  I had never heard of this poem up to this time, I find it interesting and disturbing at the same time.