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Can I get opinions on Rupi Kaur's poetry?

Asked by MaisyS (734points) November 12th, 2020

https://www.instagram.com/rupikaur_/
This is her Instagram. I want to see whether anyone can locate exactly what is charming about these poems. To me, they just seem like…sentences. She has a few gems here and there, but they’re mostly just simple prose with line breaks, in my opinion.

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gorillapaws's avatar

It’s more hallmark greeting-card than poetry IMO.

stanleybmanly's avatar

I would dub the examples given more in the nature of reflections

elbanditoroso's avatar

I don’t see them as poetry, just sort of thoughts that rambled though. To me, they are readable sentences, but I don’t get any meaning out of them.

KNOWITALL's avatar

I really don’t criticize poetry as it’s generally so personal, but I like some of hers. It’s not Emily Dickinson, by any means, but who is.

Kaur has mastered the art of making her poems seem profound, especially by capitalizing on the lazy technique of lines breaks. She writes moderately interesting sentences– usually about something taboo and difficult, like rape or confidence or being a woman of color to give an extra sense of thematic intensity– breaks them apart, strips them of punctuation, and adds an appealing image to compliment it to give the sense of a verse form.

http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/ink/2019/01/12/heres-why-rupi-kaurs-poetry-sucks/

Jeruba's avatar

Sentences with line breaks seems like a pretty apt description to me; and not all that remarkable either, as sentences go.

I’ve noticed that a lot of people who represent themselves as poets don’t actually read any real poetry, and neither do their admirers, never mind having devoted any studious attention to it. So they have no basis of comparison and no standard to aspire to. They don’t even know the forms and conventions or the meaning of imagery, symbolism, cadence, etc. It’s just a little emoting, perhaps using some pretty words. There’s more to poetry than that.

My son, when he was much younger, was apparently impressed by a YouTube piano performance and sent me a link. I played it a couple of times, looking for what was special about it. It was a pretty basic piece with simple harmony and no chords to speak of, just a single treble and bass line. Finally I concluded that he simply didn’t know anything about piano playing and sent him a link to a performance by Martha Argerich.

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