Amanah, Miftah Nurul. 2025. “Diasporic Feminine Resistance and Empowerment Through Figurative Language in Rupi Kaur’s Selected Poems of Milk and Honey (2015): A Genetic Structuralism Analysis”. Undergraduate Thesis. English Department, Faculty of Cultural Sciences and Communication, Universitas Muhammadiyah Purwokerto.
This research analyzed selected poem in Milk and Honey (2015) by Rupi Kaur using Lucien Goldman’s Genetic Structuralism, to explores how the used of figurative language reflected worldview of the author while articulating women’s resistance and empowerment in the context of Sikh diasporic patriarchal culture. This research used descriptive qualitative method by using textual analyisis through eight selected poems which represented the theme of trauma, love, emotional downfall, healing, and empowerment within the parts of the book, The Hurting, The Loving, The Breaking, and The Healing. The findings revealed that Rupi Kaur, as Sikh diasporic Women in Canada, articulates not only personal struggles but also collective experiences of women living under patriarchal dan diasporic pressures. Through metaphor, personification, irony, and hyperbole, Kaur give voices to emotional repression, cultural conflict, and resistance to gender oppression. Her identity as a Sikh also influenced her writing style. This research revealed a homology between the poetic structure and the boarder social structure shaping the experiences of marginalized women. In conclusion, Milk and Honey served not only as a personal confessional poetry, but also as a site of collective healing and resistance.