2. I chose "Pretty" by Katie Makkai. This poem has the theme of girls wanting to have a "perfect" appearance. It tells of mothers doing all they can to make this happen - to make their daughters hideously beautiful. The poem shows the lengths some females will go to in order to be "pretty". The thinking is that being being beautiful and wearing the right clothes will enhance their future and make them more appealing to potential partners. For some, it is an endless quest.
3. I hope I'm doing this right. I have decided to name it "Human":
That the human species
Comes to despise even the smallest differences
Within its brothers and sisters
Why must one be hated
For such trivial things
As gender, skin color, or even
Subjectively unusual interests
I find it to be rather mind-boggling
Even when it can be explained
By the simple fact of our evolution
Millenia ago, in fields and caves
Discrimination may have kept us safe
From once unknown dangers; but now
All it does is tear us apart
And reject those who would be friends
It has no home in modern times
And yet it stubbornly carries on
Not only in the hearts of the ignorant
But in the best of us, even against our will
Diversity among our peers
Does not exist to be shunned
But to be embraced
Not as impurities
But that which makes us wholly human
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