Brenda Tyson
Cline
English 102
09/18/11
Fairy Tale Logic
When reading the poem Fairy Tale Logic by A.E. Stallings, your attention goes right to the first words Fairy tale. As a child everyone goes to this magically place, for girls it’s that a princess charming is going to rescue you and for boys it’s about dragons or being invisible. All of these are impossible but as a child nothing is impossible. Children just want a magically place they can call there own and where nothing bad happens.
Cline
English 102
09/18/11
Fairy Tale Logic
When reading the poem Fairy Tale Logic by A.E. Stallings, your attention goes right to the first words Fairy tale. As a child everyone goes to this magically place, for girls it’s that a princess charming is going to rescue you and for boys it’s about dragons or being invisible. All of these are impossible but as a child nothing is impossible. Children just want a magically place they can call there own and where nothing bad happens.
The poem is spoken in a way we have known since we were little from the stories are parents have told us at bedtime. It shows us that logic of fairy tales is full of impossible tasks just by the first verse “Fairy Tales are full of impossible tasks.” What I feel she is trying to get across that even though things in life may seem impossible we have to fight for things we want in life. Something I was told going up is that you can accomplish anything that you put your mind to.
When A.E. Stallings says “gather the hairs of a man-eating goat, or cross a sulphuric lake in a leaky boat” it seems very silly and totally impossible. But that’s what this poem is about all the silly things we read growing up and some of the things we actually believed. Like “The language of snakes, perhaps, an invisible cloak,” everyone believed as a little kid that we could be invisible and no one could see us if we didn’t want them to. We all know now as we get older that it’s totally impossible.
Then the last verses “marry a monster. Hand over your firstborn son” to us now this totally sounds crazy but as a child we believed that. I feel by all these verse that the author wants us to see how silly the stories we were told growing up and that it makes the child really believe its true. In a way it’s a great way for kids to escape to a different world but then it makes a child believe something that’s totally not true and it gets a child’s hope up. Poems can be interpreted in so many different ways.
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