Rupi Kaur's Poet Study by TAWAN SHALLER https://padlet.com/tawanshaller/wlyafa0vhoao en-us 2017-10-06 17:52:02 UTC 2017-10-06 19:07:06 UTC hello@padlet.com he was supposed to be the first male love of your - life you still search for him everywhere -Father tawanshaller https://padlet.com/tawanshaller/wlyafa0vhoao/wish/194801547 I really like the structure of this poem because it starts of very vague, talking about a male figure with important influence over your life. And we learn a lot about the narrator's life and society in general from the reveal of who she is talking about. ]]> 2017-10-06 17:54:27 UTC https://padlet.com/tawanshaller/wlyafa0vhoao/wish/194801547 i struggle so deeper to understand how someone can pour their entire soul blood and energy into someone without wanting anything in return -I will have to wait till i'm a mother tawanshaller https://padlet.com/tawanshaller/wlyafa0vhoao/wish/194803182 A lot like the father poem, this poem structure begins very vague, relating a personal attachment and then turning it into a subject that any reader could understand what type of specific feeling the poet is trying to portray. ]]> 2017-10-06 17:57:54 UTC https://padlet.com/tawanshaller/wlyafa0vhoao/wish/194803182 I do not want to have you to fill the empty parts of me i want to be full on my own i want to be so complete i could light a whole city and then i want to have you cause the two of us -combined could set it on fire tawanshaller https://padlet.com/tawanshaller/wlyafa0vhoao/wish/194803966 This poem uses imagery of a city and uses it as a metaphor for a person who is content with being by themselves and how they long for a relationship that could be exciting but at the very same time dangerous to her. ]]> 2017-10-06 17:59:47 UTC https://padlet.com/tawanshaller/wlyafa0vhoao/wish/194803966 did you think i was a city big enough for a weekend -getaway i am the town surrounding it the one you've never heard - of but always pass through there are no neon lights here no skyscrapers or statues but there is thunder for i make bridges tremble i am not street meet i am - homemade jam thick enough to cut the -sweetest thing your lips will touch i am not police sirens i am the crackle of a -fireplace i'd burn you and you still coulden't take your eyes off - me cause i'd look so beautiful- doing it you'd blush i am not a hotel i am home i am not the whiskey you -want i am the water you need don't come here with -expectations and try to make a vacation -out of me tawanshaller https://padlet.com/tawanshaller/wlyafa0vhoao/wish/194805385 This poem is kind of a sequel to the previous poem because it still uses the metaphorical imagery of the city to describe someone else's mental state. For previously she was a city and now she is the small town surrounding it. Meaning that the last relationship she was involved in damaged her and now she's more careful and knows what's best for me. ]]> 2017-10-06 18:03:24 UTC https://padlet.com/tawanshaller/wlyafa0vhoao/wish/194805385 love is not cruel we are cruel love is not a game we have made a game out of love tawanshaller https://padlet.com/tawanshaller/wlyafa0vhoao/wish/194809880 Through experience we manage to see certain concepts differently, and the narrator uses the metaphor for a game because she got "Played']]> 2017-10-06 18:12:23 UTC https://padlet.com/tawanshaller/wlyafa0vhoao/wish/194809880 sometimes the apology never comes when it is wanted . and when it comes it is neither wanted nor needed -you are too late tawanshaller https://padlet.com/tawanshaller/wlyafa0vhoao/wish/194810560 The poet's narrator discusses the truth of how life moves on for everyone else even after being wronged, and sometimes it is best to just move on instead of bringing up bad blood. ]]> 2017-10-06 18:14:00 UTC https://padlet.com/tawanshaller/wlyafa0vhoao/wish/194810560 the next time he points out the hair on your legs is growing back remind that boy your body is not his home he is a guest warn him to never outstep his welcome again tawanshaller https://padlet.com/tawanshaller/wlyafa0vhoao/wish/194812934 This poem in the collection is a hint of the beginning of her self love for herself and her body after being hurt with relationships. She uses metaphorical imagery to use her body as a house that must be respected. ]]> 2017-10-06 18:18:40 UTC https://padlet.com/tawanshaller/wlyafa0vhoao/wish/194812934 my issue with what they - consider beautiful centers around excluding - people i find hair beautiful when a woman wears it like a garden on her skin that is the definition of - beauty big hooked noses pointing upwards towards -the sky like they're rising to the occasion skin the color of the earth my ancestors planted crops - on to feed a lineage of women - with thighs thick as tree trunks eyes like almonds deeply hooded with - conviction the rivers of punjab flow through my -bloodstream so don't tell me my women aren't as beautiful as the ones in your country tawanshaller https://padlet.com/tawanshaller/wlyafa0vhoao/wish/194822552 This poem not only tackles self love and body appreciation but also discusses how heritage and colonialism has disfigured our concept of beauty- using it to push away people that don't fit the mainstream idea of beauty. And this poem tells the audience that heritage is very important and beauty is completely in the eye of the beholder. ]]> 2017-10-06 18:39:50 UTC https://padlet.com/tawanshaller/wlyafa0vhoao/wish/194822552 what terrifies me most is -how we foam at the mouth with -envy when others succeed but sigh in relief when they are failing . our struggle to celebrate each other is what's proven most difficult in being human tawanshaller https://padlet.com/tawanshaller/wlyafa0vhoao/wish/194824594 The poem discusses the human nature of competitiveness. In the first verse we see the narrator's disappointment in the behaviors that humans do and in the second verse ]]> 2017-10-06 18:45:02 UTC https://padlet.com/tawanshaller/wlyafa0vhoao/wish/194824594 your art is not about how many - people like your work your art is about if your heart likes your work if your soul likes your work it's about how honest you are with yourself and you must never trade honesty for reliability -to all you young poets tawanshaller https://padlet.com/tawanshaller/wlyafa0vhoao/wish/194829379 The poet discusses how to be truly happy with what you do, you must appreciate your own work and know that you are comfortable with yourself and how you do things. ]]> 2017-10-06 18:58:55 UTC https://padlet.com/tawanshaller/wlyafa0vhoao/wish/194829379 give to those who have nothing to give to you -seva (selfless service) tawanshaller https://padlet.com/tawanshaller/wlyafa0vhoao/wish/194830097 We come to a full circle, where earlier the poet talks about how they can never understand how to give love to someone who can't give it back (their mother) and now we see the poet giving out the advice to do the same thing mothers do. Be selfless. ]]> 2017-10-06 19:01:23 UTC https://padlet.com/tawanshaller/wlyafa0vhoao/wish/194830097 how can our love die if it's written in these pages tawanshaller https://padlet.com/tawanshaller/wlyafa0vhoao/wish/194831429 The poet questions the concept of forever, for when even when relationships and things die people still hold on to memories and written evidence. So does anything really ever end?]]> 2017-10-06 19:06:20 UTC https://padlet.com/tawanshaller/wlyafa0vhoao/wish/194831429