Barbie Doll, by Marge Piercy, has to be one of the best poems written so far. The poem has a simple but yet important message to all woman, and in a way men as well. Why does everyone analyze their own physical features and not look into what the other person has inside. In the poem, you have a girl who is described as smart and healthy, yet she was being criticized by her big nose and big legs, so instead of ignoring all the comment she decided to cut her legs and nose off, and then found herself in a casket.
The name for the poem, Barbie Doll, represents of how many females are being fed that the perfect body is made like Barbie. Barbie got these beautiful eyes, blonde, thin waste, cheek bones, and curves, for me this is just one specific type of beauty and that would only come from the outside and not the inner side of the person. Many woman do in fact get stressed out or even take the action of changing their whole life style to look pretty for everyone to watch. Truth is that if you were the only one in the world, you would probably not care about your appearance because you wouldn’t have anyone to tell you how beautiful or ugly you are in a daily basis. But in this case I want to say people, not just woman, because there are some cases where even men go through this stage of life.
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