Original poem reprinted online here: "Photo, Brownie Troop, St. Louis, 1949" by Margaret Kaufman Originally read: July 19, 2013 More information about the Poet: Margaret Kaufman The poem is told as a monologue from the point of view of instructing and "calming" the object. From what I can gather, past me noted the voice was from, "troop leader?" But that's a guess, in either way, the focus of this poem is judgement. The first line focuses on the comparative subject of "Karen Prasse" and the majority of the poem focuses on Karen's attributes, "an example of precocity" -- and in this sense the poem avoids the other subject for the first half of the poem. This leads to the assumption that the other half, the "you" is the opposite of Karen. So when there's description like this, "a girl who knew that the sky (blue crayon) / was above the earth (green crayon" the definition of precocity is exemplified t...
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