... branch, Like a vessel at the launch When its last restraint is gone. Laura performs a familiar role in literary history - that of the fallen Eve. She relinquishes herself to the sexual temptation offered by the evil goblin men. Her sin is compounded by prostitution in selling a lock of her hair in return for the fruits. This can be viewed as an act of rape; the goblins cut her hair for payment ... , when, at the time, a woman's hair was a somewhat sacred thing. The fallen woman is a common figure ... in literature, however, because she comes from the creative mind of a female poet the re...

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