The poem called, “Social Expectations,” by Emily Butler is a lyric poem that talks about how one’s beauty is destroyed by how society changed them. There are four stanzas with two verses each and there is a rhyming pattern of “aabb.” This poem illustrates that one’s beauty is their identity. When one’s identity represents them for who they are and who they created themselves to become is when one is most beautiful, but when letting others dictate your actions, that beauty is destroyed. The lines, “I'm manufactured; a walking billboard of cosmetics. I'm but skin covered metal and prosthetics,” illustrates that one is basically manufactured by society when they give into the expectations of society. At one point it can even lead to one not being able to find themselves again. The message the poet is trying to convey is that when society changes a person with their expectations, rules and perception of how they believe one should be, it leads one to a point where they are unable to identify themselves and undergo self-discovery. It stresses the point that one should not let others change themselves.