Annotated Bibliography Kaur, Rupi. Milk and Honey. Kansas City, MO: Andrews McMeel, 2015. Print Section 1: Summary & “Reading For” Milk and Honey is a collection of poetry by Rupi Kaur that is split into four different sections, each dealing with a different aspect of her life, femininity, sexuality, and her relationship with pain on [...]
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Milk & Honey Blog 4
Milk & Honey by Rupi Kaur is a poem book mostly dealing with love, loss, pain, strength, self love and female empowerment. I believe the audience this book was targeted towards was largely female which is why it was difficult to be a submissive reader while reading the poems. I recently had the same difficultly [...]
Milk and Honey Blog 3
In reading Rupi Kaur’s Milk and Honey, I have come to find that intertextual codes manifest themselves differently in a collection of poetry as opposed to more story-driven works of narrative fiction. That is, the dynamics that allow a writer to employ these intertextual codes in a typical work of fiction are altered when approaching [...]
Milk and Honey- Blog 2
milk and honey by Rupi Kaur is a collection of poetry that explores different types of pain and how they manifest within people. These poems challenge traditional poetry (for example rhyme schemes, meter, et cetera) and take on the form of prose or free-verse poetry. This free-verse form makes the poems a bit more accessible. Often, readers will [...]
Milk and Honey- Blog 1
Milk and Honey is a collection of poetry by Rupi Kaur that is split into four different sections, each dealing with a different aspect of her life, femininity, sexuality, and her relationship with pain on varying levels. I went into this book mostly blind since I am typically a reader that is easily swayed by [...]