“The Pied Piper Of Hamelin: A Child’S Story” By Robert Browning - Is This Simply Just A Child's Poem? Essay

“The Pied Piper of Hamelin*: A Child’s Story*” By Robert Browning -* is this simply just a child's poem?*

“The Pied Piper of Hamelin: A Child’s Story” - In this poem by Robert Browning in the title, it says, as stated above, “A Child’s Story”, now though this poem may start off, giving the look of your average child’s story. So first of all, what is a child’s story? What does this poem have, that can classify it as a child’s story?
In traditional children’s stories, there are always things that occur in the majority of all children’s stories, for example, a hero and a villain, in this case we have are unusual hero, the piper and it would seem that the villain(s) of this story are the greedy politicians or every corrupt being. Obviously there has to be a reason for there to be a hero so a quest of some sort is created, the rats need to be gone from this town and the politicians are unable to do anything about it. The story is told in simple enough structure for a child to follow with the use of rhyming, humour and other such tools to keep children’s attention like keeping suspense, magic, mystery, etc. Now as most children’s stories follow the trends as stated above, they become very predictable but this story is somewhat different to any traditional children’s stories, this story seems to stray off the pattern of a child’s story but it does retain some forms of the average child’s story.
Characters in this novel include; The Piper, the politicians, and the minor characters such as the rats, the children, the parents. First to start with is our main protagonist, the Pied Piper, to start with, he isn’t a traditional hero, he does not stand out as, for example, a knight in shining armour but an eerie man, with no background information making him quite a mysterious character, he seems to not care about material objects or fame, he carries...