Point of View

This poem is told in the first-person point of view using the pronouns “I” and “me”: “A small, angular face that reminded me / of a fox’s mask” (Lines 2-3). The exception is the title, which isn’t self-descriptive but instead established by a third-person voice. The speaker alternates between addressing the reader and talking to themselves, voicing questions about their time in fairyland. This creates a feeling of a dramatic monologue, wherein the speaker uses a dramatic space to process their own experience. The narrative alternates between the concrete (“The castle was sometimes made of rough gray stone” [Line 18]) and the uncertain (“What did I eat there?” [Line 24]). Towards the end of the poem, the speaker’s musings turn inwards away from the setting and towards their own emotions. At this point the poem becomes less narrative and more confessional, reflecting not a wider...