Dante Gabriel Rossetti's painting Venus Verticodia,
depicting Venus, the pagan goddess of love in the manner of a madonna (portrait of Virgin Mary)--note the halo. Pre-Raphaelite paintings were notorious for their sensuous, "fleshy" depictions of spiritualized, ideal females.
Question:

1. If "Goblin Market" seems in its conclusion to support the spiritual domestic ideal of the "Angel in the House," why is it filled with such erotically charged imagery? How do you reconcile the poem's message of self-denial with its highly sensuous imagery?