I searched Google images for The Goblin Market and I found these two images to have extremely contrasting images of the goblins. The first images takes the text in a literal sense, and makes the goblins appear as rodents. The second image creates the goblins as creepy, unearthly creatures.
The poem depicts the goblins as rodents to make them seem atrocious and fearsome. However in the image that depicts the goblins as rodents is less frightening than the image that shows the goblins as actual goblins. Not that I know what goblins would actually look like, but this image gives a depiction that I would associate as goblins.
I just find it interesting that the image with the rodent goblins is far less creepy than the image with the goblins that are much more alien.
The image of Laura is almost exactly the same in both images. She has rosy cheeks, pale skin, and long golden hair that the goblins are holding. However, her situation in each image could be seen differently. In the first image she is given some space and looks comfortable, whereas in the second image she is enclosed by the goblins with very little room to move.
I feel as though the second image is a much better depiction of the poem. The goblins look like monsters that are enticing an innocent girl, and the whole image is much creepier than the first. I just find it odd that the first image takes the imagery of the poem literally by making the goblins appear as rodents, and as a result the image looks less creepy.
Maybe the first image was used to show our comfort with things we know and the 2nd image was shown for our fear of the other. The 1st image is shown with not just rodents but I believe I see three birds in it. The first image can show how we're comfortable with things we understand and that the things we can tolerate, but the 2nd image is the other the things we can't tolerate and they are shown as ugly and creepy. It shows if we get to close to that "other" it will engulf us and we will lose ourselves.
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