The best poems stick with you, whether you like it or not, they don’t allow you to read and immediately move on.
In fact, Kaur’s poems are overly consumable, functioning like an Instagram post you like and then soon scroll past, they don’t prompt deep contemplation or re-evaluation. They are contractual affairs they require some groundwork before you can receive the reward. 2: i am hopelessly a lover and a dreamer and that will be the death of me 3: my heart woke me crying last night how can i help i begged my heart said. Obviously structural and linguistic complexity are not at the crux of what makes a good poem, but poems shouldn’t lay everything bare. I recently read both Milk and Honey and The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur expecting to hate it to be honest. It’s true, most of her poems feature a single sentence, entirely in lowercase, with no punctuation and relatively random line breaks which seem at least to give the impression of profundity. These views are absolutely not unfounded. Kaur ’s work has been widely critiqued since its publication for being overly simplistic and lacking depth and substance, with many disgruntled readers turning to Twitter to post satirical imitations of her poems which parody her distinctive style. TikTok video from crispedits (crisp.edits0): 'milk and honey - rupi kaur page 131 poem fyp milkandhoney stay'.
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