Exposing Rupi Kaur's personality in her selected poem Home Body

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Rizqiyah, Nilla (2023) Exposing Rupi Kaur's personality in her selected poem Home Body. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya.

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Abstract

In this research, the researcher focuses on analyzing Rupi Kaur's poetry collection with a biographical approach. This topic becomes important and interesting to be analyzed from the biographical approach because every work of literature may relate to the author itself. Moreover, poetry serves as a means for poets to communicate their thoughts and emotions. This research aims to answer the research problems about (1) How is “I” characterized in Rupi Kaur's poem collection Home Body? And (2) How does the characterization relate to the author's background?. This research employed a descriptive qualitative method with the theory of new criticism and expressive approach for the analysis. Biographical approach involves analyzing a literary work with regard to its author's background. Therefore, the researcher used this approach to relate the background of the author with the selected poems in Rupi Kaur's Home Body. The result of this research shows that the speaker or "I" in Rupi Kaur's poems exhibits a complex range of traits and characteristics. These include introversion, pessimism, optimism, obedience, sensitivity, ambition, and patience. These characteristics are influenced by Rupi Kaur's experiences and childhood environment.