Barbie Doll poem help please!!!?
Ok i have to analyze a poem and write a five page paper i chose this poem called Barbie Doll by Marge Piercy. Can you please give me some ideas on what to put in my intro paragraph. how should i start my introduction?? Any ideas for a hook. Any other help would be great also!
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/barbie-doll/
Thank You !
You should probably focus on something clearly related to the primary point of the poem, which is clearly a feminist poem. In the first part of the first stanza, note the parents’ attempt to make the girl feminine and to train her for her role as a wife and mother.
The second stanza features a variety of statements that are favorable when they apply to men. Of course, the end is ironic in that the girl ends up looking pretty (and thus achieving the goal of women, according to the poem) only after she kills herself and is made up by the mortician.
Now, regarding your introduction, I think it’s a good idea to have an introduction that gives an outline of what is to follow. And you probably won’t know that until you’ve written the rest of the paper. So start by figuring out what in particular you want to write about in the poem. Choosing the obvious probably won’t be a great idea, and choosing too broad a topic could force you into being too vague. So you might choose to focus on the particulars of the language and how the language itself reflects the themes of the poem. Or you might instead choose another topic, of course.
Good luck.
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