Will review the submission and either publish your submission or provide feedback. You can help us out by revising, improving and updatingĪfter you claim a section you’ll have 24 hours to send in a draft. In this case, those interpretations will likely have to do with defiance, self-discovery, and religious transcendence. To understand poetry at all requires the ability to get to a good, sufficient intellectual answer for why the poet would put something a certain way, but to understand Rupi Kaur, the reader will need to do another thing too, which is to take each poem seriously and slowly, to let the words steep until other, deeper interpretations come out. That's why she uses periods after her lines. The line "she needs within herself" has a very straight-forward interpretation that probably suffices for most readers, but the insightful reader will see that each little phrase is designed as a riddle. it's the world that/ convinced her she did not." This poem is such a wonderful picture of what Kaur accomplishes in the collection. She's not saying "You go girl, you got this!" Rather, there's another edge to her words, a kind of unspoken challenge to the reader to conquer their desirous appetite for something they don't have. she's already had everything/ she needs within herself." Read the first line alone, and you'll see, "she's already had everything". Her answer is not just "What is an important lesson that some women should know," but rather, it's a proclamation of a noble truth, "that since day one. Look at the poem, " what's the greatest lesson a woman should learn?" The poem isn't built on lavish poetic devices or on academic pretenses, but rather on a central driving force in her own life, her will to learn and succeed. Take a look at how she creates depth, not through flowery language, but with nuance and subtlety, through little details. The effect is mild transcendentalism, and indeed many of the poems talk openly about growth, relationship to self, relationship to society, and enlightenment. The genius of the collection comes from its straight-forward, easy-to-digest approach, but her use of clever nuances in the details leaves the reader still puzzled, even with the answer right there in front of them. cummings, but more importantly, it's all her own in this collection. The way Kaur uses punctuation and capitalization in her poetry might be an indication of an influence from e.e. Academically speaking, this poetry is contemporary, and it bears some resemblances to other poets in this realist, inward facing style. Written by people who wish to remain anonymousĪlthough Milk and Honey is a collection of poems, it's also a story, told through vignettes, detailing the emotional components of life, especially related to femininity and ethnic heritage. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community.
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