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"her tree of life drooped from the root:"
This uses a metaphor to suggest she is like a plant, potentially delicate/fragile. The use of drooped portrays her illness and vulnerability.
The colon separates the metaphor from the beginning of the list which explains her addiction.
This is also significant in relation to the Garden of Eden and the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. The tree could represent the characters fall, her temptation that has overcome her and therefore led to the tree "drooping from the root" - her punishment/illness/self-destruction.
The use of colons:
"I hear the fruit-call, but I dare not look:
You should not loiter longer at this brook:"
The colon is significant because it almost acts as a topic sentence, a beginning of a list. The rhyming couplet also sounds similar to a Witches chant.
There are links between page 8 and page 16 of Christianity. On page 8 there is use of symbolism of God, a protector; through Lizzie's character guiding Laura - to stay away/not look at the Goblin men.
Christian references to the Bible through the use of language
"fiery" and "peril"
The use of eyesight -
"The eyes are the window to the soul"
There is also references to Medusa, for example "But I dare not look" and "Laura turned as cold as stone" The use of metaphorical ideas relate to the punishment of eye contact is made in Greek mythology.