"Work of Artifice"

In Marge Piercys poem called "Work of Artifice" it starts off using bonsai tree as a metaphor for women using imagery to create the issue has a whole. When Piercy said "its your nature" this meant that it was a women's job to be beautiful.  Women had the potential to grow as tall and reach out with open arms just like he Bunsai tree, but the men seemed to be holding them back by "pruning" them meaning the guys sculpted and shaped the women how ever they wanted to. It seemed like they were stripped from anything they could and wanted to accomplish. Women could of went out and worked or even voted but it was unseen or heard of for a women to do these kinds of things. I never went through these times, but it plays a great interest to me, on how things use to be. When Piercy said "domestic and weak" these were the words that was referred to women and still is. I think this story still kind of exists in today's society, when some men still expect the women to stay home and do chores around the house. Although most women are now growing freely there is still that percent out there that are living how things use to be back in the past.