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The heavenly home is opening as holes from the realm send light. These tiny specks, these celestial flecks, and crooked men bend right. They turn from wrongs and evil songs That no longer heave their strings. Their puppet masters made them hazards They won't let them believe their kings. No Prince of Peace for the king of goats No mortal crown of great shimmering. But as light gleams the sheep bleat And they can feel the hate simmering. It boils and fights as men become knights As souls they stole they lose. They've lost control as light from holes, Of heaven, extol and muse. The musing is virtue and mercy and curfew, Of limits on vice and sin. And the knights now freed, espouse their creed, They say “let a show of lights begin. Let heavens rays shine down on grays, And blacks find heaven’s gleam. May we bathe in aura, end this horror And be engulfed in a luminescent dream. There knights return home to light of the dome They flee the realm eternal in night. In the harvest they're reaping in peace ever sleeping, In what began as a kernel of light.

Loved this analysis! I was not expecting to hear my favourite poet mentioned in this particular video, but she was - Wisława Szymborska ( she won the Nobel Prize in 1996) and also another good poet from my country - Zbigniew Herbert. And yes, they are very distinct from each other. I will check Pablo Neruda.

This poor girl can’t catch a break anywhere. No one seems to like her work.

3:05 by osmosis? I heard my mother use this saying once and didn't think it was common since it's a chemistry term.

book stores are flooding with junk, i am an Indian but i didn't feel that i can buy her books without checking reviews online. thanks for the video, cleared me up.

Love this analysis. “With gobbling mother eye” reminds me of when animals eat their young when the mother feels she cannot adequately care for them. Don’t believe this was the poet’s intention with that phrase, but it’s always reminded me of that.

You astonish me. I would not have guessed that the reason for the droning on and repetition of the first few lines was to prove a point, rather than the poet's own style (or shortcoming). How I would love for my own poems to be analysed in such a manner, with utter care and devotion. I beg you, dear sir, to keep at your analyses and to accept the expression of my best sentiments.

The issue that the speaker has with the astronomer is that the astronomer is trying to fully rationalize the universe. Perhaps, that is his way of appreciating the universe, but the speaker might see this as an insult. Something so beautiful, mystical, and majestic cannot be fully measured in human systems. This sterilizes the beauty of the universe. There are some things so beautiful in existence, that it is beyond human comprehension. Beyond our created systems, but we can appreciate and be in awe of these things without having to over explain it, rationalize it, sterilize it. I tend to sympathize with the speaker more as well.

Thanks I needed this

I love this.

Excellent breakdown!

Are you saying it's worse than faculty poetry?

I don't really connect to this poem as a cautionary since I'm still alive and a university graduate. But, I love this poem because it reminds me of my rebellious youth. We skipped school, we stayed up late; dance, drink, sing. It was such a great time.

Really helpful✨

@PoetryandPrejudice I was wondering have you read any poems by Carol Ann Duffy, if you haven't I would recommend The World's Wife - a book of poems all talking about the figures of mythology, film, literature and so forth but from a woman's perspective its brilliant, funny, insightful, moving and it writes circles around Rupi Kaur's work. I also would like to recommend Rapture from the same poet. It's a book of poetry following the chronology of a romance from its beginning to its inevitable end. When you have read these books is it okay if I ask, can you do a video on them please? Great video all the best 😊👍

A "straghtforward", explanation on how to use the power of poetry to describe and explore a complex, difficult subject. Rupi Kaur's work, if one can call it that, has no power and is not poetry.

The interpretation is fine, even though I'm not a fan of the poem. It seems too short to have any effect on me and I wouldn't have understood much without your backstory. I agree with you that he exclaimed Jesus! in place of what some would put a swear word. And the word "handsome" refers to Bill.

Lovely poem. I recently discovered it and my interpretation was very similar to yours.

I'm Polish and I checked this poem in Polish and it's a good translation, although Herbert said, "after I build a house", and not "after I make a home", a slight difference, but it changes the interpretation - he wants to build a house first, NOT start a family first. Unmarried men in Poland will sometimes build a house even before they are married. So the word he is talking about could well have been a proposal of marriage. He was 44 when he got married, so I guess he did take his time before he committed.

Bad poetry is bad poetry, no matter who wrote it. The professor is judging the poems from the technical point of view. Every literary piece has some rules, a novel is a novel and not an essay, short stories are short stories and not song lyrics. And poetry is poetry, because of the poetical devices employed. A normal prose sentence divided into lines is not yet a poem. Even a simple poem needs a bit more work than splitting into lines. There are fab poets of colour, but Rupi Kaur is not one of them. You can like Rupi's quotes and tweets but she isn't a great poet, she barely writes poetry, most of her pieces are not poems. Her Instagram blew up because of very controversial photos she posted of women bleeding during her menstrual cycle.

THANX REALLY HELPED ME MAKE SENSE OF HIS POEM..

It seems way more a sort of collection of quotes, thoughts... but cliche based. Is good to have someone talking about poetry

I'm disappointed you haven't continued this because you have a very interesting way of explanation, tho I understand, I wouldn't want to waste any more time with this book either. If I'm allowed to be blunt, the big issue with Kaur's texts is that they're either lazy or uncreative. Poetry has its line-breaks because you can work with verses in ways thats you can't with prose text. Rupi Kaur does line-breaks so the text is easier to read. That's also why she can't be more expressive. The texts have to be summaries of events, instead of descriptions of them, to be understood by as many people as possible without actually getting uncomfortable. A lot of people respect Rupi Kaur because she writes about sa and womanhood, but that's the deal: It's not her texts about these topics that are respectable, just the fact that she's writing about these topics. And at that point you have failed as a poet

Please make a video on what is poetry and how to be a smart reader if there is a very to teach poetry interpretation. Love your videos, thank you!

Oh my, nothing about this woman is lazy. What she is doing is so brave, being vulnerable in public. What are you doing? Critising others, but giving nothing of your own vulnerabilities. Sorry, not sorry

The problem is that people confuse relatability with emotional resonance. A piece of writing is talking about an experience they can relate to and that feels like it's good "poetry." But it would probably be more suitable for a magazine article. There are well-written articles out there that discuss childhood sexual abuse and the repercussions. The poem you quote at the beginning of the video is essentially like a two-sentence version of those articles that fails to explore the topics in their complexity. And I do not deny that this can be an entry point into literature. Emotionally connecting with a topic can be the reason to fall in love with reading for many people. However, that does not mean that the poetry is good. It's instagram captions, essentially, which is why I think the label "instagram poet" is what should be used, possibly even a different word than poet. Nobody wanted to call copy writers poets when advertising got big. These poems are designed to do a particular thing and they do that fairly well: get people who are on social media to like these texts.

I loved the poems you chose to compare to Kaur. I don't care about her work, but your selections blew my mind.

Master carpenter - the Malcom X of cabinet makers feminist are gendercentric advocates who see male uniqueness as an inherent weakness the cruelty of inequality presumed to be inversely proportional to the irony of ethnic superiority Eurocentrism in academia isn't necessarily ironically scholarly Anglocentric orthodoxy was doubtless instrumental in rebranding our understanding of British heavy metal

Love your video!!!

Good review. Thank you!

I like that you not only criticize but show positive examples of works you find to be more effective.

Where have you gone?

That was great. I'm starting to love poems.

When Rupi Kaur published her first book, she was about 20 years old and inexperienced. When Homebody was published a almost a decade later, she was about 29. I'm disappointed to see her not explore anything new from the first two books or develop more skill at all. Nearly a decade, and no development as a writer at all.

Today is Thursday, August 3, 2023, two years after the original posting. I am a Traditionalist when it comes to my writing and enjoyment of poetry; albeit a s an amateur, since I am not yet published. I think the generally accepted term for that nowadays is “New Formalism”. New Formalism, Hell! What is that supposed to mean? Does it imply that there is a gap in the structure of poetry from, say, the time of Rudyard Kipling to now, when many poets in the 20th century wrote using free verse or open form? I can accept that at face value. However, to me, if a poem does not have meter or rhyme, then it is merely “fractured prose”, and the person writing it is trying to masquerade as a poet and does not realize that they do not have the gift from the Muses. Yes, I am saying that if the Muses existed, they are, in fact, Traditionalists and have always been. So, I feel quite comfortable with the opinion of Field Marshal Wavell in his well accepted anthology “Other Men’s Flowers”, and in the opinion of Victor David Hanson. At least Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II was thoughtful enough to have her Lady-In-Waiting, Lady Susan Hussey, to sign a thank you letter for the two poems I wrote for her.

Can you do some poems by James Wright? He is an an incredible poet and I think you’d enjoy his work.

Haha this was so interesting loved it my college class is pretty cool

Impressive Expression. Respect from BD🇧🇩

My position regarding Rupi Kaur's poetry is similar to Martin Scorsese's regarding Marvel movies. There is absolutely nothing wrong with liking her work, that you feel identified with her phrases, that you are moved by her life story. All of that is great. But what she writes is not poetry. Literature is an art that deserves respect, we must respect great writers and value true talent and effort. That does not mean that Rupi has no talent or that she has no merit. Personally, I give her full and complete credit as an influencer, public figure, opinion leader, internet personality and also as a visionary, businesswoman and activist (although I don't really buy her ideas that much)... but I can't give her credit as a poet because that would be disrespectful to poets, her lines are incomplete thoughts and little more than that. I would add that I think it is very audacious of her (in a good sense) to have taken her writings to the field of performance because, once again, she is a visionary woman and has known how to capitalize on the attention she has received, she has known how to jump on the bandwagon of fame and has been very astute (or maybe just intuitive and instinctive) in aligning herself with mainstream themes. Honestly, I'm glad for her success but I'm not happy at all for the decline in quality that all artistic disciplines are experiencing. I hope my appreciation of this author helps some people to broaden their horizons. Blessings to Rupi, by the way.

There is a market for cheap booze, cheap clothes, cheap cars, cheap homes, and now cheap poetry.

Yellow can mean unhealthy or sickly

Thank you for this informative analysis very interesting

if poetry comes with a big enough success suddenly its great, and if you actually like poetry you're wrong for disliking it 🙄

I like your interpretation, and I really like the poem. When I first read it I thought she was living in sin with a literal milkman. Milkman used to deliver milk early in the morning, when it was cool, to prevent spoilage. Delivery routes were short for the same reason and by 5 am he would be finished his (say) 3 your delivery route. They delivered 7 days a week. They didn't get paid much, thus the studio . She regrets her decision at 5 am when she wakes to hear him come up the stairs but by the end of the day has once again resigned herself to her mediocre life, not caring enough to even clean the studio. A poem about a stuck life.

Wonderful analysis! Beautiful poem. The word codependence comes to mind. Thank you for your insights.

thanks sm

Your channels great - subscribed. When I hear "lurched," I think of someone drunk and stumbling, which of course doesn't make the image any less devastating.

Brilliant review. Thanks for taking the time and effort to explain why great poetry shouldn't require context.

m.th-cam.com/video/fPj7NuaJtko/w-d-xo.html Explanation and analysis of the poem Living in Sin

I've never thought of the poem being a declaration of an affair I've always read the it as a un married couple living together which where I'm from was considered a "sin" and the man still scruffy is uninterested in putting the time into the relationship and she become almost like a mother/maid for him and the milk man coming up the stairs is the dreaded next day of reality. i did really like the alternative take and is making me question the poem and my prior knowledge