Marge Piercy Barbie Doll Analysis
The Perfect Analysis of Marge Piercy’s “Barbie Doll”
Marge Piercy (March 31, 1936 and currently still living), an American poet, novelist, and social activist, was known her highly personal often angry, emotional and deep meaningful works. During her childhood, her family, being in the middle-working class was hit by the depression. Later on, Piercy having won a scholarship attended the University of Michigan as the first one in her family to attend college. As she attended college, she realized that she did not fit the image, set by society, of what a women should like, Piercy based her writing with the experiences on the views of society of her based in the social standards of a women in the world. With that, Piercy became committing involved …show more content…
Since, like a fairy-tale, the poem has a moral message, how girls are taught to be a certain way to fit in society. The poem is written in a free-verse rather than a normal poem, that consist of rhythmic and meter of the poem. Since, the poem is talking about the restrictions that women have to fit the in with the social standards, Piercy makes the poem free-verse represent how women should be able to sexperience freedom, and in this case, since the poem is talking about the restrictions. Piercy is showing that lack of express of freedom in some way or another is going to be expressed, when given the chance but, still have an effect on the …show more content…
With the figurative language representing the reader’s choice too believe and take action of not fitting societies standards. Like what the reader interpret the figurative language meaning, as Piercy asserts, “with the undertaker's cosmetics painted on, a turned-up putty nose,” Piercy uses figurative language to show the two sides or option that women have the hard way, listening to the standards of society and letting them bring the person down, or the easy way, ignoring and accepting the uniqueness of every individual as they are. Giving the tone of sadness because it makes the reader realize the affliction women go through.
Piercy makes the poem “Barbie Doll” represent the large quantity of insecurities that women specifically go through because of the standards that society set as acceptable. Piercy does this with the use of careful use of title, structure, tone, and smart uses of figurative language. Piercy also makes this poem seem more like a parabola rather than a poem so, it can be used to send a moral message that people should not be caught in the societies standards that are not realistic and no one fits
Marge Piercy (March 31, 1936 and currently still living), an American poet, novelist, and social activist, was known her highly personal often angry, emotional and deep meaningful works. During her childhood, her family, being in the middle-working class was hit by the depression. Later on, Piercy having won a scholarship attended the University of Michigan as the first one in her family to attend college. As she attended college, she realized that she did not fit the image, set by society, of what a women should like, Piercy based her writing with the experiences on the views of society of her based in the social standards of a women in the world. With that, Piercy became committing involved …show more content…
Since, like a fairy-tale, the poem has a moral message, how girls are taught to be a certain way to fit in society. The poem is written in a free-verse rather than a normal poem, that consist of rhythmic and meter of the poem. Since, the poem is talking about the restrictions that women have to fit the in with the social standards, Piercy makes the poem free-verse represent how women should be able to sexperience freedom, and in this case, since the poem is talking about the restrictions. Piercy is showing that lack of express of freedom in some way or another is going to be expressed, when given the chance but, still have an effect on the …show more content…
With the figurative language representing the reader’s choice too believe and take action of not fitting societies standards. Like what the reader interpret the figurative language meaning, as Piercy asserts, “with the undertaker's cosmetics painted on, a turned-up putty nose,” Piercy uses figurative language to show the two sides or option that women have the hard way, listening to the standards of society and letting them bring the person down, or the easy way, ignoring and accepting the uniqueness of every individual as they are. Giving the tone of sadness because it makes the reader realize the affliction women go through.
Piercy makes the poem “Barbie Doll” represent the large quantity of insecurities that women specifically go through because of the standards that society set as acceptable. Piercy does this with the use of careful use of title, structure, tone, and smart uses of figurative language. Piercy also makes this poem seem more like a parabola rather than a poem so, it can be used to send a moral message that people should not be caught in the societies standards that are not realistic and no one fits