Hazel Tells LaVerne
Katharyn Howd Machan
I found that Katharyn Howd Machan conveyed Hazel Tells LaVerne as a quite humorous piece. Part of what created the poem's humor was the misspelling of words and the excessive usage of slang. I thought that this story was satirical toward fairytale stories. I felt as though it was making fun of "The Frog Prince" fairytale. Consequently, that just made the story a little bit funnier. "well i screams ya little green pervert an i hitsm with my mop.."(Howd Machan). The fact that she refers to a talking frog as 'a green pervert' made me laugh. I really thought that the improper use of grammar made the poem pretty funny. Most of the poems I have read have been gramtically correct for the most part and seeing a little of variation made it a little more enjoyable. I felt like Machan's humorous approach to poetry and satirical fairytales was very interesting and not typical in most poems.
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