I really enjoyed Goblin Market, probably because its imagery was clear even for a novice like me. It was also the most upbeat of the poems in the anthology. I was surprised at how many of the rest were about death. Even the one that I was most worried about reading, In the Tower at Jhansi. It wasn't the ra-ra imperialist ode I'd feared, just a simple piece about suicide. And from then on it seemed like 2/3 of the anthology were about death. Not morbid, and interesting to read, but it seems the impermanence of life was a major theme for her. That and the shallow perfidy of men.