Poem Analysis: Barbie Doll By Marge Piercy

I really liked these poems this week. They were easy to understand and see what each author was trying to say. In the poem Barbie Doll by Marge Piercy it starts off by to me telling young girls what they should expect to be or be doing when they were older. They were given smaller toys that represented bigger objects such as a stove, iron, and lipstick. Then as the girl gets older she is teased by others her age about not only her body, but her “great big nose and fat legs.” Even though she is the one that is being mistreated she still apologizes to the people that are treating her badly, just to get them to like her, to see her. Not to see her by her appearance, but to see her as the person that she is. After time of being told how to behave,