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Book Overview: The Sun and Her Flowers

3 min readdecember 14, 2021

Riya Patel

Riya Patel

Riya Patel

Riya Patel

The Sun and Her Flowers: A Review

The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur

Publication Date: October 3rd, 2017

ISBN13: 9781449486792

Publisher: Andrew McMeel Publishing

Pages: 256

Genres: Poetry/Feminism



Main Topics per Section

  • Wilting: heartbreak and grief
  • Falling: struggles with love, low self esteem, and self-abandonment
  • Rooting: honoring one’s roots
  • Rising: love
  • Blooming: empowerment and self-acceptance

With each of these topics, Kaur tries to convey her own traumatic experiences in life without being shy about it through her book. She wants to advocate for herself and show others to learn to love themselves like she learned to. She also explored big issues in the real world such as infanticide and feminism, which are now “hot topics” in today’s media. Along with this, she talked about her mother and the struggles she faced to get where she is today, to add on to an already inspirational story.


Feminism

As I mentioned before, many of the poems reflected a theme of feminism. Throughout the text, I appreciated and admired that she talked about women being oppressed in Indian culture, exploring topics about girl power and female infanticide. One of my favorite poems from this topic was:

“what is the greatest lesson a woman should learn
that since day one
she’s already had everything she needs within herself
it’s the world that convinced her she did not”


Immigrant Experiences

Kaur was also able to tell her own experiences as an immigrant, which allowed non-immigrants like me to experience what it felt like to adopt a new country as home. She went on to describe the challenges and tough labor an immigrant has to go through in order to survive in a whole new country. In telling this journey, Kaur was able to tell us a lot about her mother’s journey. For example, one of her poems states:

“she left an entire village to be his wife
now she left an entire country to be a warrior
and when the winter came
they had nothing but the heat of their own bodies
to keep the coldness out”


Illustrations

Along with the themes, I loved the illustrations in the book. All of the illustrations blended so beautifully with her poetry. They helped convey the emotions intended in the poems all at once: sadness, love, frustration, and happiness.

https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1507036320i/24075790.png

Look at this beautiful drawing!


Overall, Rupi Kaur did a great job with her collection of poems as it really drove through the topic of self-love. She helped inspire women to uplift themselves and not care about the negative comments people around them give and instead, love themselves for who they are. I would definitely recommend it!

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Book Overview: The Sun and Her Flowers

3 min readdecember 14, 2021

Riya Patel

Riya Patel

Riya Patel

Riya Patel

The Sun and Her Flowers: A Review

The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur

Publication Date: October 3rd, 2017

ISBN13: 9781449486792

Publisher: Andrew McMeel Publishing

Pages: 256

Genres: Poetry/Feminism



Main Topics per Section

  • Wilting: heartbreak and grief
  • Falling: struggles with love, low self esteem, and self-abandonment
  • Rooting: honoring one’s roots
  • Rising: love
  • Blooming: empowerment and self-acceptance

With each of these topics, Kaur tries to convey her own traumatic experiences in life without being shy about it through her book. She wants to advocate for herself and show others to learn to love themselves like she learned to. She also explored big issues in the real world such as infanticide and feminism, which are now “hot topics” in today’s media. Along with this, she talked about her mother and the struggles she faced to get where she is today, to add on to an already inspirational story.


Feminism

As I mentioned before, many of the poems reflected a theme of feminism. Throughout the text, I appreciated and admired that she talked about women being oppressed in Indian culture, exploring topics about girl power and female infanticide. One of my favorite poems from this topic was:

“what is the greatest lesson a woman should learn
that since day one
she’s already had everything she needs within herself
it’s the world that convinced her she did not”


Immigrant Experiences

Kaur was also able to tell her own experiences as an immigrant, which allowed non-immigrants like me to experience what it felt like to adopt a new country as home. She went on to describe the challenges and tough labor an immigrant has to go through in order to survive in a whole new country. In telling this journey, Kaur was able to tell us a lot about her mother’s journey. For example, one of her poems states:

“she left an entire village to be his wife
now she left an entire country to be a warrior
and when the winter came
they had nothing but the heat of their own bodies
to keep the coldness out”


Illustrations

Along with the themes, I loved the illustrations in the book. All of the illustrations blended so beautifully with her poetry. They helped convey the emotions intended in the poems all at once: sadness, love, frustration, and happiness.

https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1507036320i/24075790.png

Look at this beautiful drawing!


Overall, Rupi Kaur did a great job with her collection of poems as it really drove through the topic of self-love. She helped inspire women to uplift themselves and not care about the negative comments people around them give and instead, love themselves for who they are. I would definitely recommend it!

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