Heidi With Blue Hair Poem

Fleur Adcock’s poem, ‘For Heidi with Blue hair’, illustrates a part of the eponymous blue-haired character’s life: Heidi is sent back from school, just because of what she had done with her hair. Throughout the poem, sympathy is given to her as she fights the high authorities of the school alongside her father. This presents her individuality.
From the beginning, Heidi’s individuality is presented in the way the author writes. The poem is written in the second person, one may think that it is written by a intimate friend of Heidi, but the narrator of the poem is actually Heidi herself. This illustrates her rebellious attitude, as she is tries to share her vexed experience of the school with us, ‘When you dyed your hair blue’. Not only is this rebellious attitude created by the use of the second person, but it is also created by tone of informality, which the poet creates by writing the poem with no rhyme schemes nor rhythm. This is reinforced by the …show more content…
Heidi starts to mock the headmistress, as she is the main cause of Heidi’s anger. This is shown in the first line of the second stanza, where she says ‘as the headmistress put it’ in between two commas, which is made into a necessary bit of information for Heidi. The reason behind why Heidi is mad at the head mistress is because she is the one who sends Heidi home and forbids her to come to school with her hair blue, ’although dyed hair was not specifically forbidden, yours was..’ This portrays unfairness towards Heidi, as she is the only one who is not allowed to dye her hair. This may represent Heidi as an unpopular figure within the school, as the head mistress is being biased towards her. This is strengthened by the phrase, ‘not in school colours’, which suggests that the headmistress is trying to cover what she really