Sacred Heart Rebellion Against Societal Standards in Barbie Doll Journal Paper Journal Instructions Choose one poem to write on this week and incorporate

Sacred Heart Rebellion Against Societal Standards in Barbie Doll Journal Paper Journal Instructions

Choose one poem to write on this week and incorporate answers to that poem’s prompt in your 250 word (minimum) response.

Langston Hughes, “Harlem”

What is a dream deferred? What point is Hughes making about deferred dreams in this poem? Why do you think this poem is titled “Harlem?” Explain your answers, referring to specic places in the poem (quotes) in your explanation. .

Marge Piercy “Barbie Doll” or “Sylvia Plath “Metaphors”

Piercy and Plath each offer criticisms of the social expectations for women in their poems, but target different aspects. If you write on one of these poems, explain which expectation the poem is rebelling against and how you can tell, referring to specific places in the poem (quotes) in your explanation. 9:42
Langston Hughes, “Harlem”
POETRY FOUNDATION
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Harlem
BY LANGSTON HUGHES
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore-
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over-
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
Langston Hughes, “Harlem” from The Collected Works of Langston
Hughes. Copyright © 2002 by Langston Hughes. Reprinted by
permission of Harold Ober Associates, Inc.
Source: 1990
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Metaphors.pdf
Metaphors
Sylvia Plath
I’m a riddle in nine syllables,
An elephant, a ponderous house,
A melon strolling on two tendrils.
O red fruit, ivory, fine timbers!
This loaf’s big with its yeasty rising.
Money’s new-minted in this fat purse.
I’m a means, a stage, a cow in calf.
I’ve eaten a bag of green apples,
Boarded the train there’s no getting off.
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Barbie Doll Marge Piercy.pdf
Retrieved from: http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/barbie-doll/
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 cherry candy.
Then in the magic of puberty, a classmate said:
You have a great big nose and fat legs.
She was healthy, tested intelligent,
possessed strong arms and back,
abundant sexual drive and manual dexterity.
She went to and fro apologizing.
Everyone saw a fat nose on thick legs.
She was advised to play coy,
exhorted to come on hearty,
exercise, diet, smile and wheedle.
Her good nature wore out
like a fan belt.
So she cut off her nose and her legs
and offered them up.
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.
Doesn’t she look pretty? everyone said.
Consummation at last.
To every woman a happy ending.
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