Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth (Mouthmark): 10

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Ya, sebagian orang menganggap bahwa keperawanan adalah hal yang sudah selayak dan sepantasnya dijaga. Namun ada juga yang bilang bahwa keperawanan seseorang sebenarnya bergantung dengan nilai-nilai yang dipegang teguh.

Teaching my mother how to give birth : Shire, Warsan, 1988 Teaching my mother how to give birth : Shire, Warsan, 1988

I was casually strolling by one of my friend's profile when I stumbled upon a poem. And it's titled For Women Who Are Difficult To Love. After reading and rereading it, I hopped on to Youtube to find a reading of it. And I did. I listened to it, again, and I fell in love with it, all over again. I can't tell you what I felt while I listened to it, it was like food to my soul. And those last lines...simply eye-watering and strengthening. So, Hayat didn't really recommend this to me directly, but I feel like she did and I'm so grateful for finding this poem(and writer) through her.

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The poetry I read is a bit of a mixed bag. I have collections by Rabbie Burns, Edgar Allen Poe, Banjo Patterson and e.e.cummings. I like what I like but there is poetry which I know is great that really doesn't do anything for me...Allen Ginsberg for example. Pernah mendengar selentingan “Perempuan yang mengenakan hijab atau mungkin rajin salat, adalah mereka yang suci”? Coba baca puisi satu ini. Mungkin kamu nggak percaya dengan apa yang ditulis Warsan Shire. 5. “Conversations About Home” Buku puisi ini mendekatkan saya dengan isu-isu di dunia belahan lain. Pendek saha, 37 halaman. Nggak bikin lelah membacanya. Dan ya, sama seperti poets of color lainnya, Warsan Shire nggak segan menunjukkan identitasnya. Her identity, her true power. Meski membaca buku puisi ini dalam bahasa Inggris dan sebenarnya dapat dengan mudah membedakan mana laki-laki ( he) dan mana perempuan ( she), tetap saja harus jeli mengenali tokoh laki-laki atau tokoh perempuan mana yang dimaksud penyair. Jika salah mengerti, perbedaan interpretasi bisa terjadi.

Trauma And The Female Body: An Analysis Of Warsan Shire’S Trauma And The Female Body: An Analysis Of Warsan Shire’S

In the first poem of the collection, "Your Mother’s First Kiss", Warsan details her mother's first relationship to a boy of whom she later learns that he "raped women / when the war broke out." The poem is haunting because with each verse, it becomes clearer that his boy also raped her mother when she was 16. It ends with the chilling verse: Last week, she saw him driving the number 18 bus,

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Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth seolah menjebak saya pada tulisan-tulisan menyayat hati. Pada buku puisi ini, Warsan Shire menekankan banyak tema soal hubungan antara anak dan orangtua, Ayah dan Ibu, kakek dan nenek, atau antara keluarga dari beda generasi. This poem speaks of a foul sense of loss and longing. The type that one wears like a perfume but stinks like a sewer. It's not pretty. It's not the kind of sorrow anyone wants to hold, comfort or be associated with. That kind of heaviness means auto-ostracism. Shire presents that kind of ugly sorrow in this poem. What I love most about it are the last lines which make you think it may be ugly but damn it's beautiful.

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I thought the sea was safer than the land. I want to make love, but my hair smells of war and running and running.” But wait, how if you’re gonna spend the rest of your life with abuse? How long will you deny it? How long will you close your eyes? How long will you survive? What your mother told you after your father left -- Your mother's first kiss -- Things we had lost in the summer -- Maymuun's mouth -- Grandfather's hands -- Bone -- Snow -- Birds -- Beauty -- The kitchen -- Fire -- When we last saw your father -- You were conceived -- Trying to swim with God -- Questions for Miriam -- Conversations about home -- Old Spice -- My foreign wife is dying and does not want to be touched -- Ugly -- Tea with our grandmothers -- In love and in war If my mother contracted and died of the virus, I would not be able to forgive both myself and her for not working through our relationship”, I thought. My psychologist tried to counsel me into not jumbling funeral scenarios before they happen but it all fell on stone. All I can say is, I was once like you, the apathy, the pity, the ungrateful placement and now my home is the mouth of a shark, now my home is the barrel of a gun. I’ll see you on the other side.Shire does not compromise. The idea of setting oneself on fire is tangible to suicide. The men are coming, the soldiers and sons of war, so let us end it before they can touch us. This can be read as an act by a woman burning herself to avoid the objectifying effects that are coming her way. Historically speaking, the women of an invaded country often become the greatest victims. We all know what humans can do when in a blood frenzy. By committing suicide these daughters can avoid the worse of such possible crimes. But the act of setting oneself on fire can be read in a different way, a much brighter way.