Every morning and evening,

the girls hear the goblin hawking:

"Come and buy the fruit in our orchard,

Come and buy:

apples and quince,

lemons and oranges,

There are no birds in the bulging cherry.

wild free-growing cranberries,

wild apples and raspberries,

jackfruit and blackberries,

apricots and strawberries-

all ripened together,

in this summer-

morning doesn't wait,

dusk flies fast,

come and buy them.

How fresh the freshly picked grapes are!

Pomegranate is beautiful and full.

Dates and Brass plums,

Prunes and exotic pears,

Prunes and Vaccinium,

Please try it.

Red gooseberries and round gooseberries,

Funiu flowers and fruits as bright as fire,

Figs can fill your mouth,

Citron is originally from the south,

It looks lovely and tastes beautiful,

Come and buy it. "

Dusk after dusk,

In the wick grass by the stream,

Lola bowed her head and listened carefully,

Liji covered her red face;

In the gradually cooling air,

they are tightly squeezed together,

their arms are tightly clasped, their lips are warning,

their fingertips are numb and their cheeks are burning.

"Next to me," said Lola.

She lifted her blonde head.

"We can't look at goblins,

and we can't buy their fruits.

Who knows what nutrients its roots suck,

Who knows what soil it is planted on?"

The goblins shouted "Come and buy" and

limped into the valley.

"Oh," cried Lizzie, "Lola, Lola,

you shouldn't peek at the leprechaun."

Liji covers her eyes, and

covers them tightly to prevent them from peeking;

Lola raised her blonde head,

and whispered softly, like the brook:

"Look, Liji, look, Liji,

Little people are walking along the valley.

This one is dragging a basket,

That one is holding a plate,

The third one is dragging hard-

That golden plate must weigh many pounds.

What a lush vine it is to grow such sweet grapes!

What a warm wind it is to blow such a rich orchard!

"

"no!" Lizzie said, "No, no, no!

Don't be fascinated by their goods.

Their gifts are harmful to us. "

She plugged her ears with dimpled fingers

and ran away with her eyes closed.

Curious Lola is still staying,

I want to have a good look at the vendors:

This one has a cat face,

That one is wagging a tail,

This one is following the mouse steps,

That one is learning to crawl like a snail;

This clumsy guy pokes around,

furry like a wombat,

that one stumbles in a panic,

like a honey badger coming out of the hole.

She only heard a sound,

like a flock of pigeons cooing together;

in the cool and pleasant evening breeze

it sounds amiable and extremely attractive.

Lola stretches her snow-white neck,

like a swan among reeds,

like a lily beside a mountain stream,

like a poplar branch in the moonlight,

like a ship cutting a cable and launching

out of control.

along the mossy valley,

goblins came back in droves.

They screamed,

"Come and buy, come and buy."

When they came to Lola,

they stood together on the moss,

these strange little brothers

winked at each other,

these cunning little guys

blinked at each other.

This one puts down the basket,

That one holds up the plate,

This one is busy knitting the corolla-

With tendrils, leaves and hairy brown drupes

(such fruits are not sold in the human market),

That one vigorously raises

a heavy golden plate full of fruits to her.

"Come and buy, come and buy," they kept shouting.

Lola stared, but did not move.

I really wanted to buy, but I had no money.

The peddler with the tail like a duster asked her to try it.

The tone was as sweet as honey.

The cat's face snored to please.

The rat's step was a welcome speech.

The snail's crawling speech was just audible.

This parrot shouted happily.

It was called "beautiful goblin" instead of "beautiful parrot".

But Lola, who loves sweets, quickly said,

"Good people, I don't have any money.

Taking yours is tantamount to stealing.

I don't have any copper coins in my wallet,

I don't have any silver coins in my wallet,

all my gold is on the broom,

whenever the spring breeze ripples,

they sway on the rusty heather. "

They replied in unison:

"You have a lot of gold on your head.

Buy our fruit with a roll of blonde hair!"

She cut off a bunch of precious golden hair,

She shed a tear over pearls,

Then she sucked their fruit-

It was round and swollen, bright and beautiful.

Juice bursts-clearer than water,

sweeter than honey on rocks,

stronger and more fragrant than intoxicating wine;

She has never tasted such delicious food.

Eat to her heart's content. How can she be satisfied?

She sucks

the fruits growing in this mysterious orchard, and she can't stop sucking;

It hurts to suck until your lips hurt.

Only the sucked peel is discarded.

Only one stone is collected.

when she came home alone,

she didn't know whether it was dark or dawn.

(translated by Fei Bai)

Appreciation

In the fairy tale narrative poem "The Fair of the Leprechauns", Christina Rossetti?, an English pre-Raphael poet, reveals his religious feelings that worldly desires are forbidden fruits by describing a fairy tale about leprechaun fruits.

The Fair of Leprechauns is 567 lines long, with a simple and cheerful tone and fresh and vivid language. The description of the whole poem is concise and meticulous, with great imagination, and imagination contains concrete symbols.

This poem tells the story of two sisters, Liji and Lola: Lola couldn't resist the temptation of goblins and exchanged a roll of blonde hair for beautiful and attractive fruit. The fruit is delicious, but after eating it for the first time, Lola has no chance to eat it for the second time, and she is getting emaciated and haggard in the longing for those fruits, her blonde hair becomes gray and dim, and people are on the verge of death. In order to save Lola, Liji found a leprechaun market in the valley, hoping to buy some fruits that Lola yearns for day and night. However, the leprechauns must tempt Liji to taste them first. After Liji refused, the goblins showed their fierce looks. There was a thrilling confrontation between them, and finally Liji came home with scars and juice all over her face. Lola tasted the sweet and bitter taste of juice on her sister's face, fainted and woke up, and finally recovered to her original pure and beautiful self. Later, Lola and Liji became happy wives and mothers. Lola often told the children the story of how Liji risked her life to save herself. According to the poem, the friendship between the same sex is reliable, and they will give each other the most selfless encouragement, guidance, help and support under any circumstances.

The excerpt is the beginning of the poem, where Luo Saidi describes the goblins vividly, or smugly, or clumsily, or in a panic. Their demeanor and actions when tempting Lola to buy fruit show their ulterior motives: they squint at each other and exchange eyes, and their tone is as sweet as honey. When Li Ji bought fruit, they tried every means to tempt her, and only after Li Ji tasted it would they sell the fruit to her. If the temptation failed, they tried to torture Li Ji, and when they got tired of playing, they left with laughter.

Obviously, under the influence of religion and Victorian social customs, this poem allegorizes the temptation of lust intentionally or unintentionally. In the Victorian era, blonde hair was often used as a symbol of women's chastity. Leprechauns responded to each other and exchanged beautiful and attractive fruits for what women treasured. Women degenerated because of desire and therefore went to death. If they can't get what they want, the goblins will show their ugly true colors, roughly torture the faithful woman, and then leave together to find the next prey that can be tempted. As for those fruits that look full and beautiful, as Li Ji said, "We can't look at goblins,/Their fruits can't be bought,/Who knows what nutrients its roots absorb,/Who knows what soil it is planted on?"

Unlike the fallen Lola, Liji always keeps her purity. She negotiates with the goblins, so that Lola can return to the pure world from her lost path and help her to regain her virginity. As a nearly perfect woman in The Fair of Leprechauns, Liji has both a faithful and pure character and the courage to stand up for others' dangers. She is the ideal woman image established by Luo Saidi, and her virtue is Luo Saidi's moral integrity that women should have, while worldly lust is regarded as forbidden fruit by Luo Saidi.

There are some different interpretations of this poem. For example, some people think that its theme is to praise the friendship between sisters; Some people think that it shows the temptation of nature to people; Some people think it is an exhortation to make friends. This is mainly due to the different concerns of the readers.

(Wei Lina)