A Work of the Artifice In the poem‚ A Work of the Artifice‚ the author‚ Marge Piercy‚ uses a bonsai tree to represent people who are being controlled or influenced by a type of authority or higher power. She does this by using playful imagery‚ contradicting tone‚ and strong metaphors to make this representation throughout this poem. The playful imagery which compares a bonsai tree to the way people are conformed and molded into the “perfect” person or the mold of what is “right”. In the poem‚ the
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Poetry Analysis #4 – 2/15/13 Title: The Secretary Chant Author: Marge Piercy‚ 1973 “The Secretary Chant‚” by Marge Piercy is about a female creating a vision of how she has lost her personal identity to her job. She uses metaphors to allow the reader to envision a woman who is living her life through her career. Piercy also uses paradox‚ personification‚ and the pun to bring the character alive. With the use of metaphors‚ both implied and explicit‚ the reader can deeply empathize the central
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away-from-home market it was only logical to move towards the home consumers. The strategy was to seek to develop a product for the changing market and develop a product that everyone would want‚ positioning them to move ahead in the market (Hooley‚ Piercy‚ & Nicoulau. 2008. Pg. 8). Consumers purchasing for their homes would order through a different venue than their office counter parts who used an office coffee service‚ OCS‚ or a Keurig authorized distributor‚ KADS. The at-home brewer would be
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manual dexterity” (Piercy 624). She is completely normal‚ has two arms and two feet as most people do‚ and her attributes checks her off as a functional human being‚ capable of taking care of herself and others. Yet all of this is still not enough for people to look past her physique. It shows how her value has been undermined by others just because she has a “big nose and fat legs” (Piercy 624). What makes matters worse is that in line ten‚ the girl “went to and fro apologizing” (Piercy 624). It is ironic
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Marge Piercy is an American poet‚ novelist‚ and social activist. Her writings have often focused on feminist or social concerns. After her first failed marriage‚ Piercy lived in Chicago where she remembers those years as the hardest of her adult life. Piercy wanted to write about women she could recognize‚ working class people who were not as simple as they were supposed to be. (Marge Piercy. 9 Nov 2011. http://www.margepiercy.com/main-pages/biography.htm>) In the poem‚ a woman is angry at the
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her. Such expectations are still in existence today. Authors from the nineteenth and twentieth century are using literature and poetry as a vehicle for the new role and passion of the woman. Such authors as Kate Chopin‚ Mary Wilkins Freeman‚ Marge Piercy‚ Edna St. Vincent Millay and Henry James evoke a new sense of expectations for women in their use of literary language. One must acknowledge the differences in the expected roles of women and those the authors are portraying in order to penetrate
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to everyone’s eyes. Marge Piercy is an American poet‚ novelist‚ and social activist. Many of her most famous works include He‚ She‚ and It‚ Early Grrl‚ and The Moon is Always Female. Beauty Standards are one of the main themes in this poem. It is apparent throughout the entire text as Piercy portrays a young girl beaten down with expectations she cannot handle which in turn‚ brings about her suicide. “Consummation at last. To every woman a happy ending.” (Piercy‚ Line 24-25) At this point in
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herself which led her to a life of unhappiness. In the poem “Barbie Doll‚” Marge Piercy uses repetition‚ simile and irony to show the expectation of society on women. First‚ the repetition of peer’s judgments of the
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Marge Piercy‚ an American poet‚ social activist and novelist‚ mostly known for being a feminist poet is the author of “Barbie Doll”. The title of this poem‚ “Barbie doll” make us think about a “perfect” girl toy that every child owns‚ but slowly we realize that this is not what the author means. In the first stanza‚ Piercy starts by saying “This girl child was born as usual”‚ which lets us understand that she was a normal girl just like anybody else. Other than that‚ the first stanza has a lot to
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portrays a summary of a life since birth to the end of life at a funeral. The main character in the poem never has a chance to live life to the fullest because she is always trying to please others and be accepted‚ which leads to a life of unhappiness. Piercy uses form‚ diction‚ and imagery throughout the poem to help imagine the “perfect” woman in the eye of society and the price one may be willing to pay. The form of the poem was written in free verse style. It consists of four stanzas and each stanza
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