On the 30th August we started digging into Rupi Kaur's Milk and Honey. Rupi Kaur is a Canadian poet from an Indian decent. She is a very out spoken poet with strong feminism artwork. Her poems have many artistic measures to it, accompanied with various visual illustrations.
I am going to discuss one specific poem by Rupi Kaur- The art of being empty. The poem tells a story about a girl being born and her 'life'. But, on the contrary she writes about being "emptying out of my mothers belly" and how "The only reason you know you're still alive is from the heaving of your chest". The protagonist of the poem tells of how she is born as it was without reason. She tells of two times specifically where she learned to be invisible, as that is expected of a female. The first time was when "emptying out of my mothers belly". This does not sound like an expression of birth and new life, but as the opposite- an abortion. The second time was "learning to shrink for a family who likes their daughters invisible was the second". Her she talks about how it is almost a curse for a family tp have a girl instead of a boy. The word likes creates an impersonal ambiance. One likes your steak medium-rare or your eggs well done. She attempts to become nothing as she is taught by means of repeating it to herself until is becomes true, "I am nothing I am nothing I am nothing". To accompany the theme of being born without a reason, Rupi Kaur beings the poem with death and ends it with death. Not ever feeling alive. She writes, "The only reason you know you're still alive is from the heaving of your chest". The whole poem basically being without reason.
The structure of this poem is quit different and artistic. The title is at the end of the poem. Creating a 'title-less' effect, as the girl in the poem has no title. The title being The art of being empty. The word art adds to a magic element. The whole poem refers to a magic act numerously. This is evident with words like " act of disappearance", "learning to shrink", "invisible", "art of being empty", "is simple believe", "like a wish". The poem is accompanied with a skeleton which ties with the ideas of death, lifeless, unidentified. It can be said that the skeleton does not have a face or is unidentified for it is an universal issue.
I am going to discuss one specific poem by Rupi Kaur- The art of being empty. The poem tells a story about a girl being born and her 'life'. But, on the contrary she writes about being "emptying out of my mothers belly" and how "The only reason you know you're still alive is from the heaving of your chest". The protagonist of the poem tells of how she is born as it was without reason. She tells of two times specifically where she learned to be invisible, as that is expected of a female. The first time was when "emptying out of my mothers belly". This does not sound like an expression of birth and new life, but as the opposite- an abortion. The second time was "learning to shrink for a family who likes their daughters invisible was the second". Her she talks about how it is almost a curse for a family tp have a girl instead of a boy. The word likes creates an impersonal ambiance. One likes your steak medium-rare or your eggs well done. She attempts to become nothing as she is taught by means of repeating it to herself until is becomes true, "I am nothing I am nothing I am nothing". To accompany the theme of being born without a reason, Rupi Kaur beings the poem with death and ends it with death. Not ever feeling alive. She writes, "The only reason you know you're still alive is from the heaving of your chest". The whole poem basically being without reason.
The structure of this poem is quit different and artistic. The title is at the end of the poem. Creating a 'title-less' effect, as the girl in the poem has no title. The title being The art of being empty. The word art adds to a magic element. The whole poem refers to a magic act numerously. This is evident with words like " act of disappearance", "learning to shrink", "invisible", "art of being empty", "is simple believe", "like a wish". The poem is accompanied with a skeleton which ties with the ideas of death, lifeless, unidentified. It can be said that the skeleton does not have a face or is unidentified for it is an universal issue.
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