Rupi Kaur: Poetic Genius or Overly Celebrated?
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Rupi Kaur: Poetic Genius or Overly Celebrated?
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However, if poetry was solely defined by the emotions it evokes in readers, then she's done a fine job. It's nice that she's gotten many people interested in poetry.
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I don't think you sound pretentious at all. I think it's a well-supported assertion. When you remove the line breaks, a lot of her poems look and feel like regular sentences. When I first read one of her books, I enjoyed it because the overall message resonated with me, but looking at it a second time made me wonder about how much more powerful the narrative could be if more effort was put in to hone the emotion of each poem.Scarlet Lotus wrote: ↑25 May 2019, 17:03 Maybe I sound pretentious, but Kaur's work is too simplistic for my taste. I like poems that can paint a picture in my head and use interesting metaphors. There are a few lines that I like from her. But overall, I find her poetry "meh" at best.
However, if poetry was solely defined by the emotions it evokes in readers, then she's done a fine job. It's nice that she's gotten many people interested in poetry.
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Her works may not be typical poetry but our times are changing and even poetry styles are evolving. There is a so-called free-form poetry nowadays that veers away from the measured lines and is more like a narrative with line breaks.
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