![]() It’s more than just emotion on a page, but it doesn’t have to be pretentious. Poetry is not just writing from the heart. I think it’s a misnomer to call milk and honey a collection of poems because it is lacking some of this artful manipulation of the English language and the rhythmic qualities in the definition of poetry. ![]() ![]() Poetry is supposed to be meaningful and moving, which Kaur does exceptionally, but it also needs to have some sort of literary skill in it. Unfortunately, I just couldn’t find the purpose of rule breaking in Kaur’s milk and honey. Rowling’s last Harry Potter book was an ungodly number of words. Emily Dickinson’s dramatic exclamation point and later on dash usage is one example, as J.K. I use the serial comma, I like punctuating my poetry, and I stick to approximate novel word lengths.ĭespite this, I can still accept rule breaking in literature. I’m a very traditional person when it comes to literature. Poetry is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and rhythmic qualities of language-such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre-to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, the prosaic ostensible meaning. I think to start this review off, we need the definition of poetry. milk and honey takes readers through a journey of the most bitter moments in life and finds sweetness in them because there is sweetness everywhere if you are just willing to look. It is split into four chapters, and each chapter serves a different purpose, deals with a different pain, heals a different heartache. It is about the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity. Milk and honey is a collection of poetry and prose about survival. Here’s the official summary before we dive into anything: I’ve heard great things and raving reviews about it from two friends, but I just had a lot of issues with this collection. Rupi Kaur’s poetry collection was not what I expected.
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