The six poems that I chose were Barbie Doll(619), Leaving the Motel(620), Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane(624), To a Daughter Leaving Home(663), Sex without Love(692), and At the Hospital (714). My two favorites are Barbie Doll and Sex without Love. I think that both of them discuss issues that are very important, especially in our society, today. Barbie Doll talks about perfection and plastic surgery based on other people's standards as you can see when she tells us what one classmate said about her and then what everyone else saw, as too (619). She finally achieved happiness when she cut off her nose and legs and died because everyone else finally viewed her as "pretty" (620). Sex without Love is about two people having a physical connection without the emotional attachment. It tells us about the authors morals and beliefs, which I feel are very similar to my own because I can't understand how people can do/handle that. She discusses"God","religion", and "priests" (692). She doesn't understand either (you can tell by the first line) because she opens with "How do they do it, the ones who make love without love?" (692). I would also like to mention At the Hospital because it is only two lines long but it is so powerful and I have a personal attachment to it since my mom had cancer and was in and out of the hospital 5 years ago. I think it means that until cancer strikes you or a loved one, you can't fully understand it. She says "the cancer spoke at last", which makes you think that if cancer could speak what would it say? (714). "Finally clarified" in the last line tells me that it all makes sense now, which is how I felt too(714). I'm not a big fan of poetry which is why all of the poems I selected came from my Norton. I did read through a lot of poems and the ones that I chose were not random. I really enjoyed these.