Barbie Doll

This poem uses irony to satiracly express society's veiw on beauty. Young girls are often given dolls and toys that sterotype women. These dolls will be perfectlly thin and have a voulumtuouse figure; yet, these dolls are not real people they do not have thoughts and emotions like a real person. Young girls often feel as if they must look like these dolls in order to be beautiful. The girl in this poem is lead to believe that she is not good enough because she has thick legs and a large nose. The only time this girl is recognized as beautiful is when she has changed her appearances. The poem says she cuts off her thick legs and large nose and offers them up in a coffin. The coffin analogy gives the feeling that she has removed some part of herself that makes her unique. She replaced her own beauty with what society told her was beautiful and now her beauty is dead.