This poem is like a real life of a teenage girl. It starts off using little kid words such as "dolls that did pee-pee and miniature GE stoves and irons..." (Piercy). Then it goes on to explain about puberty and how it is the "magic of puberty," (Piercy), which is like an oxymoron because there is nothing "magic" about puberty.
Puberty causes many bad times in a young girls life like this poem explains about the girls "...great big nose and fat legs" (Piercy). There is a lot of little things that people say to and about girls that really lower their self-esteem and make them depressed and want to commit suicide like the girl in this poem.
After the girl is dead people then notice how pretty she looks and says it aloud. I think if people wouldn't have said mean things about her in the first place then it could have saved her life. The girl finally got to look beautiful "In the casket displayed on satin she lay with the undertaker's cosmetics painted on, a turned-up putty nose, dressed in a pink and white nightie" (Piercy). Now if only she could have lived this fairy tale life alive instead of having to take her own life to get her fairy tale "barbie doll" life. Very unfortunate for this poor girl who people felt the need to make fun of her.
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I think being a girl is extremely hard in todays society and this poem helps us realize that no one is perfect. Sometimes I think that people like to point out others problems to make them feel better.
I loved this poem! Its true on so many levels. I like how you pointed out the little kid words and the "magic" of puberty. I agree thats puberty isn't "magic" and our bodies are changing so much its hard for us to know whats going to be going in our body the next day. This poem also has a depressing turning point when the girl starts talking about suicide, and I think a lot of girls today think that they have to be really skinny, and have georgous complection and be tan and have great looking hair all the time. Which is sad to think about because in reality girls these days are striped of their childhood because of what magazines and television shows tell them they need to look/act like.
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