Hazel Tells LaVerne

• First of all, I'd like to address the title I Katharyn Howd Machan's poem, Hazel Tells LaVerne (I'm sorry, I'm typing this on my phone before the volleyball game, so I can't italicize the title!) But the title, which is always the first part of the work that the reader sees, just initially confused me. However, after reading the poem, I think the author was informing that the speaker and narrator of the poem is Hazel, and apparently is telling a story to LaVerne. The text of the poem includes numerous grammatical errors in punctuation and spelling, as well as including slang like "musta", "tryin ta", and "sohelpmegod". All of these prove that Hazel is uneducated and possibly a member of a lower or working class. I think that fact is very important to the theme of the poem, that Hazel does not believe there is any chance that she, a working class, uneducated girl, could ever be a princess. She repeat the phrase, "how can I be a princess, me a princess", proving the disbelief that she could ever merit that status. Furthermore, Hazel doesn't even attempt kissing the frog, which shows she doesn't have even the tiniest bit of hope that this could be possible.