![]() ![]() ![]() She makes the intangible tangible in the cup of black coffee. By coupling the emotion with a familiar item, Kaur gives the reader a taste, smell, heat, and image to associate with the emotions she invokes. They feel love, agonizing want, loneliness, stubbornness, and fear – all wrapped in a handful of poignant phrases. The reader sees Kaur’s longing in the lines where the speaker refuses to let go. Kaur’s poems have the ability to gut her readers because she allows the full force of her emotions into each poem. Because poetry is designed to share what the writer was feeling in a specific moment, it is often autobiographical. Whether the feeling is happy, sad, thrilling, or calming, the sensation is one readers desire. When readers return to a text again and again, it’s because that text makes them feel something. Poets are masters of evoking emotion in as few words as possible. ![]()
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