Poetry Responce

This poem "Fat Is Not a Fairy Tale" was not what I expected. I thought this poem would be amusing, but it turned out to be something much more. As I began to read it the speaker had some true emotions about what she was writing. She really grabbed my attention when she talked about how all fairy tale princesses are wasp-waisted. All fairy tales do have that stick thin princess, but not everyone is made like that in life. Just because you are fat doesn’t mean you don’t deserved to be pictured as not beautiful. Why can't fat people be princesses; why can't they have a fairy tale? Everyone needs a happy ending including fat people.

Fat Is Not a Fairy Tale
Jane Yolen
I am thinking of a fairy tale,
Cinder Elephant,
Sleeping Tubby,
Snow Weight,
where the princess is not
anorexic, wasp-waisted,
flinging herself down the stairs.

I am thinking of a fairy tale,
Hansel and Great,
Repoundsel,
Bounty and the Beast,
where the beauty
has a pillowed breast,
and fingers plump as sausage.

I am thinking of a fairy tale
that is not yet written,
for a teller not yet born,
for a listener not yet conceived,
for a world not yet won,
where everything round is good:
the sun, wheels, cookies, and the princess.