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Starting with the first stanza, of four, the persona. She is observing a young girl going from Wolfe 2 childhood, adolescents, adulthood and then death in a roundabout way. The poem provides great opportunities for explor-ing issues of gender. First and for most we must understand who the persona is in the poem, which is a woman, and more specifically Marge Piercy herself. She committed suicide by cutting off her nose and legs. But then I discovered Marge Piercys poem 'Barbie Doll.' It is a widely anthologized, surpris-ingly accessible poem of twenty-five lines, one that can be treated in two illuminating class periods. Barbie Doll: Marge Piercy This girlchild was born as usual and presented dolls that did pee-pee and miniature GE stoves and irons and wee lipsticks the color of. The casket could also mean that she she dead. She is at peace with society and herself. Now she does not have to listen to the mean things kids say. She could have either took it in and swallowed her pride and not said anything and stayed at peace or continue to face the fact she was different.Īt the end of the poem the casket represents her mental, emotional, and physical state now that she is perfected. In the poem, "a classmate said: You have a great big nose and thinck legs". She passed the time she spent sick as a child with a rheumatic fever by reading, and she has written many novels, poetry collections, and other collected works. When we change ourselves to live up society's expectations of us, we either are at peace or we continue to see what others made fun of. Bio: Marge Piercy (1936) is an American poet born in Detroit, Michigan, to a family deeply affected by the Great Depression. As with any poem, the words mean more than they appear to. Marge Piercy’s poem presents the theme about women’s loss of self-esteem and the coercion of external forces through the Barbie dolls. I tend to think it is laid out for us as an ideal to aspire to. We will do whatever it takes to not think of what society views as disturbing. Marge Piercy (born March 31, 1936) is an American poet, novelist, and social activist. The desire to be accepted destroys our self-esteem. The doll is symbolic of the ways that women themselves have been. 1936) grew up in Michigan in a working-class family during the Depression. To lack perfection is not acceptable in today's society therfore we have come to see what society sees in us as "ugly". In the poem Barbie Doll, the author Marge Piercy suggests that an American Barbie Doll typically presents herself as being the perfect woman and this leads to people being jeered at for their appearance and expected to have a Barbie-doll-like figure. Barbie Doll Marge Piercy American poet, novelist, and activist Marge Piercy (b. Society's idea to be attractive is to be nothing less than ideal.