The poem Hazel Tells Laverne by Katharyn Hows Machan is a about a cleaning maid that encounters a talking frog during her work. The talking frog offers to make her a princess for a kiss just like the fairy tale but Hazel rejects the offer and is surprised that the frog thought she could be a princess. The poem version goes differently than the tale and the mood is significant by how the author uses her style. The author makes the poem have a playful tone but a serious them by using both the structure and the language. The structure of the entire poem has no punctuation and has many misspellings throughout. This is the center of the poem and what gives it it’s style in how simple and common it is just like how a person in the situation would…show more content… The way that Hazel speaks is very uneducated without any capitalization. The words are fairly easy to understand and figure out what it means but it gives the story a kind of facade. Just the language makes the tone seem playful and kind of humorous but the theme is serious. By using improper grammar people are easy to dismiss the bigger meaning of how Hazel is insecure about herself and can’t imagine someone thinking of her as a princess. In the story the language is below standard just like how Hazel describes getting rid of the frog “well i screams ya little green pervert am i hitsm with my mop an has ta flush the toilet down three times,” just by these words the tone is playful and lighthearted but the very next line, “me a princess” uses the language to convey a deeper message, revealing the more serious theme. Hazel Tells Laverne is simply about a maid who encounters a talking frog that offers her to become a princess then proceeding to flush the frog down the toilet but how the poet uses the structure and language it is transformed into a totally different theme. Underneath the improper grammar and language the poem is about a woman who is astonished that someone could think of her as a princess because of her past and how people have treated her throughout her life. The structure gives the story a serious theme but is covered by the story’s playful tone using
