Barbie Doll by Marge Percy

Barbie Doll by Marge Percy describes how women in today’s society try to live up to being the perfect woman, that i will never understand why a women will go though all the pain of beauty. People in this society want women to who looks great, cooks, cleans, and is subservient, Kind of like Barbie to Ken. Why would you want to live in a world with woman with Blond hair, small waist, big boobs…most women in society doesn’t live up to these standards—with the exception of Pamela Anderson or Beyounce knowlence. I believe a woman should look and feel great about them not what they see in a magazine or billboard. A woman should not kill themselves with trying to look thin and beautiful; God did put people on this earth to play with them by transforming to the unnatural. The title is perfect for the poem because it is about a woman’s quest to become perfect like a Barbie doll. Her quest kills her, but ultimately she gets her wish. Society has a way of placing unrealistic expectations on women.

Metaphors by Silvia Plath

The way she put the poem seem to be a metaphor. It is broken into nine letters. There are nine lines, and ninesyllables in every line. Which there is nine months of pregnancy. Each line is a metaphor that represents the different stages of pregnancy. Like when she said “I've eaten a bag of green apples, (8) /Boarded the train there's no getting off (9).” The apples symbolize another biblical allusion, not only are green apples more sour but they symbolize Eve bringing suffering upon women with birth. So this poem is basically talked about how she felt during her pregnancy. The poem talk about her pain and suffer of bring life into this world.

The Negro Speaks of Rivers

Hughes saids "My soul has grown deep like the rivers." Because the soul is likea life force that the body have as a steam of energy.The person who recognizes that his soul has grown deep recognizes his own identity. In this poem the river symbolizes the link of mankind as the blood in the body is believed to be linked because we are all children of God, and thus we have the common ancestry originating with Adam and Eve, the symbolical first parents. He linked with all humanity, all races, all creeds for all time through the depth of his own soul that we as children of God have been reborn in the blood of Christ which is the river.. This poem has a very strong message to me and the way he portray as a river.

“After Apple-Picking

After Apple-Picking, by Robert Frost has many good symbols and allusions that describes the poem very clearly. The apple mentioned in the poem could be connected to the forbidden fruit from the Garden of Eden. It is where life begin of everything earth and heaven, therefore repelling death. To understand the complete meaning of Frost’s poem aware you of being dead, and it must have once had life. Life and death are common themes in poetry, but this poem focuses on what is in between, life’s missed experiences and the regret that the speaker is left with. Frost takes this ordinary experience and turns it into contemplation on life. The first sign of any kind of tension is in the first six lines. The ladder, which points “toward heaven,” represents the speaker’s climb through life toward death and heaven and the barrel and apples left on the tree represent things he regrets what he didn't succeed in life.