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A review by bruhmoment87
Home by Whitney Hanson
2.0
While I did enjoy & relate to some of the poems in this collection, I found that (like a lot of Instagram poetry nowadays) it is surface level, vague, & doesn't dive deep into wordplay, rhyme, metaphors, similes, or different forms of poetry. The theme is home & there is a weird thing about bees thrown in a couple of the poems but the book would essentially remain the same without whatever the bee thing is.
One of the worst poems in this book, which shows a lack of effort to actually use any poetic device within the entire book, is this:
"my car wouldn't start today
and it felt a little metaphorical
i'm really not going anywhere
~stuck"
Page 140
Reading this legitimately made me angry. Instead of actually making a metaphor, she just points out that there might be a metaphor in there somewhere. She could've used the metaphor of her being a car & actually flushed out what that looks like. If you take away the mention of the metaphor in this "poem" it loses nothing, so was it even worth writing it in the first place?
This book is very much about heartbreak & healing which did make me cry when I read some of the poems. While I related to some of her words, I still found that they lack depth.
One of the worst poems in this book, which shows a lack of effort to actually use any poetic device within the entire book, is this:
"my car wouldn't start today
and it felt a little metaphorical
i'm really not going anywhere
~stuck"
Page 140
Reading this legitimately made me angry. Instead of actually making a metaphor, she just points out that there might be a metaphor in there somewhere. She could've used the metaphor of her being a car & actually flushed out what that looks like. If you take away the mention of the metaphor in this "poem" it loses nothing, so was it even worth writing it in the first place?
This book is very much about heartbreak & healing which did make me cry when I read some of the poems. While I related to some of her words, I still found that they lack depth.