Marge Piercy is the author of the poem “Barbie Doll”. Piercy begins the poem with a nameless “girlchild”. The poem doesn’t have a set rhyme scheme. The lines run together during the stanzas. Piercy does a great job of telling a story of a girl who ended her life because she didn’t live up to society’s standards. Piercy’s poem is a magnificent twenty five line poem filled with many literary devices that showcase it’s brilliance. In lines 15-16, Piercy wrote “Her good nature wore out like a fan belt”. The literary device in these lines is a simile. Piercy also uses stereotypes. Lines 2-4 stereotype a young girl who is born like every other girl. She plays with “dolls that did pee-pee and miniature GE stoves and irons and wee lipsticks…” Piercy
