How does Christina Rossetti use language in "Goblin Market" to promote the theme of sensation?

In "Goblin Market" Christina Rossetti uses simile, and sense words to highlight the theme of sensation. In the first stanza, the description of different fruits intially indicates a relation to the sense of sight and taste, "... Taste them and try: / Currants and gooseberries, / Bright-fire-like barberries,/ Figs to fill your mouth,/ Citrons from the South,/ Sweet to tongue and sound to eye; / Come buy, come buy (Rossetti, lines 25-31)." Line 25, "Taste them and try" invites the sensation of taste by the use of the word "taste". Line 28, "Figs to fill your mouth" conveys the sense of taste by reference to figs, and also alludes to the sense of touch, as the figs are described to be big enough to feel them fill one's mouth. Line 30, "Sweet to tongue and sound to eye" asserts a pleasant sweet taste of the fruits, and the pleasing visual nature of their appearance. Christina Rossetti's use of language asscoiated with the five senses of taste,smell,touch,sight, and sound, reveals the theme of sensation within "Goblin Market". Christina Rossetti's use of simile reinforces the theme of sensation in "Goblin Market". Stanza 21 of "Goblin Market" employs simile to assert the danger of Lizzie's encounter with the goblin men, "White and golden Lizzie stood,/ Like a lily in a flood,/ Like a rock of blue-vein'd stone / Lash'd by tides obsteperously, / Like a beacon left alone (Rossetti)" Lizzie is compared by simile to a lily in a flood, to a rock lashed by tides, and to a lonely beacon. Rossetti uses the word 'like' indicating the convention of simile, to promote imagery. The imagery of Lizzie as a lily in a flood asserts the sensation of danger since a lily is less powerful than a flood, paralleled by Lizzie's similar powerlessness compared to the goblin men. Lizzie as a rock lashed by heavy tide, asserts the image of Lizzie being beaten, as she is by goblin men. Finally, Lizzie as a lonely beacon illustrates Lizzie's solitude in her fight against the goblins. The imagery created by simile promotes the theme of sensation as the written narrative of "Goblin Maket" is transformed into a visual experience by Christina Rossetti's use of language. 

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