The Frog Prince

Florence Margaret Smith better known as Stevie Smith was born in 1902 in Yorkshire, England. She was an English poet and novelist. Her nationality is British. She was the daughter of Ethel and Charles Smith. Her father abandoned the family, and her mother got real ill and died. She was raised by her aunt Madge Spear. Her aunt had a big influence over Stevie and was one of the most important person in Smith's life. Stevie went to school at North London Collegiate School which was for all girls. She gave poetry readings and broadcast on the BBC. Smith wrote three novel. She also wrote nine volumes of poetry.

Novels:

• Novel on Yellow Paper (Cape, 1936)
• Over the Frontier (Cape 1938)
• The Holiday (Chapman and Hall, 1949)

Art:   Illustration by Warwick Goble to The Frog Prince

Message: The prince is under a curse that turns him into a frog. He is very content with his simple quiet life as a frog. He always has thoughts about being disenchanted by a heavenly beautiful woman.  

Tone: Sadly, hopefully, content.

Summary: The poem is told from the point of view of the frog. He is under a curse that turned him from a prince to a frog. The frog is telling us who he is, and how he became a frog. He is very content with being a frog, and even though he would love to be turned back in a prince. The frog often wonders if its worth turning back into a human. 

Metaphor: the life of the frog is a metaphor for our life on earth.

Songs: When We're Humans - Princess and the Frog

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKYb3uKcG5Q

Poem:  Princess and the From by Robert E Hann.

- Both of the poems, describes the life of being a frog. 

-The message of these poems are its not about appearance its about the inside of a person. Even being a frog can bring you happiness. 

Done By: Chelsea Powell, Tyler McCombs.

 I am a frog

           I live under a spell

I live at the bottom

Of a green well

And here I must wait

Until a maiden places me

On her royal pillow

And kisses me

In her father’s palace

The story is familiar

Everybody knows it well

But do other enchanted people feel as nervous

As I do? The stories do not tell,

As if they will be happier

When the changes come

As already they are fairly happy

In a frog’s doom?

I have been a frog now

For a hundred years

And in all this time

I have not shed many tears,

I am happy, I like the life,

Can swim for many a mile

(When I have hopped to the river)

And am for ever agile.

And the quietness,

Yes, I like to be quiet

I am habituated

To a quiet life,

But always when I think these thoughts

As I sit in my well

Another thought comes to me and says:

It is part of the spell

To be happy

To work up contentment

To make much of being a frog

To fear disenchantment

Says, It will be heavenly

To be set free,

Cries Heavenly the girl who disenchants

And the royal times, heavenly,

And I think it will be.

Come then, royal girl and royal times,

Come quickly,

I can be happy until you come

But I cannot be heavenly,

Only disenchanted people

Can be heavenly.

 Paraphrase:

 The first three stanzas the frog is very straightforward. Its a poem the we all know very similar. 

The next three stanzas he is thinking about the enchanted people and he is thinking is it worth turning back into a human because he is happy and content with life as a frog.

 In the next four stanzas he describes he life as a frog,he is very pleased with this life. He loves how his life is quiet and basic. 

 In the last two stanzas the frog believe that you can not be heavenly or happy until you are set free. He is waiting on his heavenly girl to come set him free.