Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Anne Gray Harvey
- First Published: 1971
- Type of Work: Narrative
- Genres: Poetry, Fairy tale, Narrative poetry
- Subjects: Folkloric or magical people, Kings, queens, or royalty, Witches or witchcraft, Dwarfs, Fairy tales, Princes or princesses, Fables
The Poem
Like Anne Sexton’s other fairy-tale poems collected under the title Transformations, “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” is a long (164 lines), free-verse narrative based on the version of the Snow White tale collected by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm in Germany in the nineteenth century. The darkness and violence of this version may surprise readers who are accustomed to fairy tales that have been sanitized to make them suitable for children, but although Sexton has established a very modern voice in this and the other Transformations poems, she remains...
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