Hazel Tells LaVerne / Katharyn Howd Machan

I like how this poem puts a twist to the traditional frog prince fairy tale.  It seems to be more realistic.  If a frog started talking to me I would probably get rid of it as well.  The vernacular of the poem makes it more relatable to real life.  “an i hitsm with my mop an has ta flush,” (Machan 21).  This shows a kind of southern uneducated vernacular.  This vernacular adds to the contrast between the poem and the fairy tale.  The fairy tale is proper and yet this poem is very improper in speech.  There is also a contrast between a lowly peasant being the narrator and the prince of a frog.  In the poem it sounds as if this incident would not faze the narrator at all and does not.  It seems to me as if this is just a story to be added to the character long list of funny things that have happened to her.