Princess and the Frog

"Hazel Tells LaVerne" by Katharyn Howd Machan

"me a princess" (Machan).

Question three at the end of the poem brings out something I noticed as I read the poem. The lack of punctuation leaves the reader to identify the type of person the speaker is. The lack of punctuation and the line structures add the poem its own punctuation and flow. The lines are split up like a person would pause when reading the poem as more of a story of paragraph. Furthermore, the use of slang in the poem also lead me to initiate the thought that the speaker is an uneducated southern girl. Emphasis on certain lines also came across with the line structure of the poem. The speaker puts full emphasis on certain lines but also puts feeling and emotion in the poem of disbelief at the scene. The last two lines give a natural confusion break in the poem that allows for more understanding of the event. Therefore, from the line structure of the poem and understanding of the speaker's identity, I conclude that the poem  portrays the opportunity to be removed from a lower position by some sort of man or opportunity that is resembled in the frog. After the frog was removed from the speaker's room, the disbelief and shock of the speaker seem apparent as she immediately dwells on her dismissal of the frog and the opportunity that she passed up by ridding of the frog.