Christina Rossetti

Christina Rossetti's work predominantly focused on themes of death, unhappy love and premature resignation. These can be linked to poems such as Goblin Market, where Laura, who was tempted by the Goblin Men, nearly reached death by quickly aging and getting ill. The unhappy love aspect can be linked to her sister, Lizzie, who faces the Goblin Men later in the poem and may possibly have been subject to sexual contact, against her will. Premature resignation can be linked back to Laura, who it could be said prematurely resigned from life due to her eating of the Goblin Men's fruit and succumbing to temptation.

Rossetti was deeply religious which also affected her writing, with much of her work having references to her views. She is said to have been diagnosed with a 'religious mania', showing her devotion to religion. Many people have identified feminist ideas in her works too. Though her popularity did not match a few other female poets in her lifetime, her works have lived on and continued to be studied, showing her popularity remained high after her death.