RUPI KAUR

Rupi Kaur:

Biography:

Rupi Kaur is a writer and artist based in Toronto Canada. At the age of 5 she began to draw and paint- a hobby picked up from her mother. Being an immigrant from India she was unable to speak in English with the other children at school. This naturally meant a lot more time alone. But once she picked up the language books became her best friends.

She drew until the age of 17 when she began to sway more toward her passion for writing and performing instead. The year was 2009. And her first performance was in the basement of ‘Punjabi community health center’ in Milton. For years it went like this. Writing pages and pages of poetry on end. Performing pages and pages of poetry across Canada for the years to come. And then in November 2014 she self-published her first collection titled ‘milk and honey’.

Her passion is expression. She just uses different mediums at different times to do so. And poetry is just one of those mediums. Along with it she dabbles in illustrating, design, photography, videography, and creative direction. It’s a career that’s lead her to performing spoken word across the world while also facilitating writing workshops. But all her work engages with themes of femininity, love, loss, trauma, and healing. At times it is a composition of personal tales and in others, the experiences she encounters through life and travel.

Books:

·         Milk and honey (2014).

·         Guess how much I love you (2017).

·         Modern romance coloring (2017).

·         The colors of love (2017).

Poems:

She wrote several poems, the topics are usually about women and what they go through, they are mostly written in short form.

 My analysis:

 Rupi starts her poem by apologizing to women who have been called “beautiful”, not because they are not but because they have always been underestimated and put aside as if their roles are so limited to be just a beautiful being nothing more, that is the first thing that comes to mind when somebody not particularly a man wants to complement a woman, their potentials are forgotten and rarely mentioned, she adds that a woman should be proud of her free strong self-alongside with her natural features, she concludes by saying that this stereotype (beautiful) has to go, and that women should be called “resilient” and so on,  with words that describe their unbroken, strong personalities.

My analysis:

Women are motivated and inspired by seeing other successful, strong women surround them.