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The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur
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2.5 ⭐️
The Sun and Her Flowers is the second poetry collection from Rupi Kaur. The collection is divided into 5 sections following the cycle of a flower.
-wilting
-falling
-rooting
-rising
-blooming
Focusing on themes of love and loss, abuse and trauma, healing and femininity and the body, this collection once again is very simplistic in its writing- which is not a good thing.
Again I do think that this is good for beginners and Kaur does need her recognition for reviving poetry given the amount of poetry sales increase following Milk and Honey, but I just think her “instapoetry” is not real poetry without being pretentious.
Most of these poems are just pretty sentences with line breaks in it and nearly all of them are copied from other people and slightly reworded. Her short poems are often cringy and the longer ones are ill-thought.
Ultimately these poems are generic and as I have outgrown my teen angst years I feel I have outgrown this genre of sentimental writing!
The Sun and Her Flowers is the second poetry collection from Rupi Kaur. The collection is divided into 5 sections following the cycle of a flower.
-wilting
-falling
-rooting
-rising
-blooming
Focusing on themes of love and loss, abuse and trauma, healing and femininity and the body, this collection once again is very simplistic in its writing- which is not a good thing.
Again I do think that this is good for beginners and Kaur does need her recognition for reviving poetry given the amount of poetry sales increase following Milk and Honey, but I just think her “instapoetry” is not real poetry without being pretentious.
Most of these poems are just pretty sentences with line breaks in it and nearly all of them are copied from other people and slightly reworded. Her short poems are often cringy and the longer ones are ill-thought.
Ultimately these poems are generic and as I have outgrown my teen angst years I feel I have outgrown this genre of sentimental writing!