Love In Rupi Kaur And William Shakespeare

According to Merriam-Webster, the definition of love is “a strong affection for another arising out of kinship or personal ties”. Rupi Kaur is a well-known poet among the current generation, seeking to encourage others to be self-sufficient regarding love. In contrast, William Shakespeare writes of the type of love that can found in another person. While Rupi Kaur and William Shakespeare draw love from different sources they discuss similar characteristics of that emotion, describing love as a fullness and invigorating. As each generation changes and evolves, so do the ideas, for example, love. In the past, love mainly pertained as a feeling towards another person. In today’s society an immensely growing topic is the idea of this self-sufficient love that Rupi Kaur discusses through her books. In Rupi Kaur’s book, “The Sun and Her Flowers,” she writes, “We need more love/ Not from men/ But from ourselves/ And each other” (228). Additionally, in her book “Milk and Honey,” Kaur says, “I do not want to have you/ To fill the empty parts of me/ I

For example, in Rupi Kaur’s books she often talks about fullness, the idea of feeling whole. Shakespeare similarly speaks of this fullness which can be achieved through love used to benefit others, like a mother sacrificing time, energy, and effort for a child and gaining wrinkles from it. Secondly, both authors in their own way express love as invigorating. In Rupi Kaur’s “The Sun and Her Flowers”, she writes, “I do not need the kind of love/ That is draining/ I want someone who energizes me.” As a continuation to the section of Sonnet 2 above, Shakespeare writes, “This were to be new made when thou art old,/ And see thy blood warm when thou feel’st it cold” (13-14). He is saying that having a child would bring about this new life, the cold blood in your old veins suddenly become warm because of