Tuesday, December 27, 2016
Barbie Doll by Marge Piercy
Marge Piercys Barbie Doll shows how hostel has envisioned the image for women. In this poetry, a raw daughters life flashes before her look as she tries to live up to the nine standards. The title of the numbers itself shows the societies expectations from women. The noise of this poem is depressing, dark and sarcastic. Barbie doll is the poem that shows the excursion of women in the feral society and how she gives up her life for the society. \n start-off few lines of the poem, Piercy has point outed the girl infant was born and it seemed tout ensemble normal and usual. She was like a typical girl child showing off her dolls, different toys and lipsticks. In fifth line, the tonus changed dramatically from calm to harsh. When Piercy mention the girl child pass on puberty and everything changes, it suggests that girlchild is growing up and she is going to experience the smart that dresss with change. That be often contend for girls because it is difficult for them to acknowledge their bodies for what they be in the adult world. You involve a great well-favored stab and fat legs(6). non only her body is playing up, but her classmate in like manner starts picking on her, that hesitant her self-confidence on not being the same girl. The tone of the poem changes at this event and the girl starts questioning her forcible appearance. This here concludes the theme of the poem as here; the society is not accepting girl child who do not exhibit the societal regularise women is external appearance. Since children reflect what they comprehend and see, so we know that these cruel words big nose and fat legs have to come from somewhere from the society. \nIn flash stanza, the tone of the poem changes as Piercy is speaking about the young girls bullish potentials as a gracious being. By stentorian tone, Piercy portrays She was healthy, tried and true intelligent, possessed strong build up and back, abundant sexual set out and manual dext erity(7-9). These are t...
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