Which book is worth my time? and sometimes the men they come with hammers. Copyright © 1999 - 2020 GradeSaver LLC. Shire’s anthology is also about change and transition. only for him to wake up hours later in a bathtub full of ice, As I do my routine rounds on Facebook, I notice two friends’ posts about Warsan Shire. In conclusion Home by warsan shire is a text that supports the statement “the most dramatic texts confront readers with a disturbing atmosphere” As the poet uses provocative imagery to dramatise the text which creates a disturbing atmosphere in the reader's mind. ( Log Out /  It leaves you feeling enlightened but angry with its incisive social commentary and honesty. She lets him lift her by the waist (line 12) and lay her down on the kitchen counter (line 14). He has forgotten how the woman tastes, not her food. He was invited back to the narrator's house and placed in a tub filled with ice and—one assumes—castrated. I was told that that was the case for much of the continent of Africa. My introduction to her poetry came in 2013 when she became the inaugural winner of the Brunel University African poetry prize. An excerpt reads; “Coconut and ghee butter; he kisses the back of your neck at the stove. Judging by the anger in this image, the father was a negative, abusive force in the lives of his wife and daughter. Go back up and read every even-numbered line of this poem only. Many of them, if not all, portray a woman who is fundamentally feminist. The man in the tub is not identified and exists only as fantasy or symbol. The man is in the kitchen because he is hungry. The readers are confronted with the hardships faced by refugees which creates. Perhaps Rihanna has a plan, perhaps she takes Chris back to hers This first love seems to stand apart from the rest of the boys she keeps inside her; he is purer somehow, perhaps a memory of how she herself once was; she hopes he doesn't run into the other bad men she keeps locked away, including the aforementioned blue-eyed Johnny, who she keeps chained in the basement. She became the first young poet-laureate of the city of London in 2013. The poem starts off with no one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark” straight away this places a sense of fear in the reader's mind * as hom is a place of safety and comfort, the one place we believe we are truly safe from the world and by comparing it with the mouth of a shark, which screams danger and is a life threat we picture, Ths again creates a disturbing atmosphere. At parties I point to my body and say This is where love comes to die. Our addressed woman’s husband has come to or has always been in the kitchen because in line 6, he kisses the back of her neck at the stove and in line 8, she offers him the hollow of her throat. I point to my body and say Oh this old thing? In fact, I can argue that the poem is less about the storyline as it is about attracting the male ravenous greedy tendencies. While on assignment, I caught a glimpse into some of the city’s more unsavory corners. The poem Home by Kenyan-born Somali poet Warsan Shire points out the various motivations that fuel the need for people to flee and brings us the understanding of larger theme­­s in the discussion surrounding refugee crises around the world, especially in the global North. She views herself as a house, and is haunted by many memories, especially of men who have harmed her since she was young. I spent this previous summer working at a social justice newspaper in Cape Town, South Africa. These men could be any men; militia, immigration officers, lovers. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. Start Your Free Trial. The bigger my body is, the more locked rooms there are, the more men come with keys. Shire’s is a collection of 21 poems which begins with a short tribute (or statement) after the title page that immediately draws me in. She is able to convince words to do as she pleases with them; not under any sort of duress, but from a place of genuine respect and deliberateness. Change ). Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. Born in 1988, Warsan has read her work extensively all over Britain and internationally – including recent readings in South Africa, Italy, Germany, Canada, America and Kenya- and her début book, ‘Teaching my Mother How to Give Birth’ (flipped eye), was published in 2011. If you have been following new, exciting African poets, you have surely heard of Warsan Shire. – Roger Bonair-Agard, winner of the Brunel University African poetry prize, Warsan Shire: the Somali-British poet quoted by Beyonc in Lemonade – Muslim Magazine, Warsan Shire: The Somali-British Poet Quoted By Beyoncé In Lemonade | AboveWhispers, Warsan Shire: the Somali-British poet quoted by Beyoncé in Lemonade – AllMagNews, Warsan Shire: the Somali-British poet quoted by Beyonc in Lemonade – PodCastSurvey, Teaching My Mother How To Give Birth | Book Review | Books and Stuff, Warsan Shire: the Somali-British poet quoted by Beyonc in Lemonade - CelebrityVirals.com, Meet Warsan Shire: The Somali-British Poet Quoted By Beyoncé In Lemonade – Wargeyska Saxafi, Longlist for the Prestigious 2014 Golden Baobab Prizes Announced, How We Forget – Loyce Gayo: (Is this the most spiritual spoken word you ever heard? Warsan Shire was born in Somalia in 1988. In The Kitchen, food and sex become weapons, as a woman narrates the sensuous seduction of a cheating husband: […]. The House (poem) study guide contains a biography of Warsan Shire, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis.

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