Jewel Kilcher

By Alynne Edmondson and Brianna Harrison

Background information• Born May 23 1974, in Payson, Utah• Moved to and grew up in Homer, Alaska shortly after birth• Husband Ty Murray since August 7 2008• Grandfather helped draft the Alaska state consistution• Learned to play guitar at age 16• Height 5’6”• able to speak some Swedish • Broke collarbone and rib when thrown from a colt , April 24, 2002.• Attended the world-renowned Arts Academy in Michigan.• Dated musician Steve Poltz for 3 years • Father's name is Atz and mother's Lenedra Carroll • Lived in a van travelling before making it big • American singer-songwriter, guitarist, actress, and poet• received three Grammy Award nominations • sold twenty-seven million albums worldwide • debut album Pieces of You went platinum twelve times

Lost

So just kiss me

I am not from here

What I wanted

Insecurity

Sample Poems

I Keep Expecting You To

Lost Lost is a puzzle

of starsthat breathes

like waterand chewslike stone

   Aloneis a reminder

of how faracceptance

is fromunderstanding

   Fearis a bird

that believes itselfinto extinction

Desperationthe honest recognition

of a false truth

Hopeseeing who you really are

at your highestis who you will become

Gracethe refinement of a Soul through time

So Just Kiss meSo just kiss me and let my hair

messy itself in your fingers

tell me nothing needs to be done-no clocks need winding

There is no bell without a voiceneeding to borrow my own

instead, let me steady myselfin the arms

of a man who won't ask me to bewhat he needs, but lets me exist

as I am

a blonde flamea hurricane

wrapped upin a tiny body

that will come to his armslike the safest harbor

for mending

What I wanted

I guess what Iwanted was

to hear

you'd stay with me always.

I guess what Iwanted was

to see

those hands vowingnever to leave my own.

I guess whatI wanted was

to know

I am not loving in vain.

I am not from here,my hairs smells of the

windand is full of

constellationsand I move about this

worldwith a healthy disbeliefand approach my days

and my workwith vaporous consequence

  a touch that is translucent

  but can violate stone.

I am not from here

Insecurity you don't call

I check againI become uneasy-  is this a frame?

Suddenly i'm not so sureI check my sources

each conversation becomes a crumbhow easily I'm led

how stupid I've beento believe

you could beloving me

you who can not be seducedby anything other than

the temperanceof need

  each one facilitating the nextand suddenly I see my place

the phone ringsyou say hello

but I don't believe you

I Keep Expecting You To

I keep expecting you to fade

to wake up one morningand not care

so I keep myself

one carefully measured step away

in anticipation of your love's decline

so when your cheek turns and your attention

wanders elsewhere

my heart will not be left all awkwardhanging

from an elastic thread you forgot to pull off your old

pair of socks for it's in your nature to lose interest suddenly

we are both artists who suck the marrow out

of each lovely bone It just happens to be

my lovely bones this time How bare

Analysis of So just kiss me

• Personification – line five

• Metaphor – lines 11 – 13

• Simile – lines 16 – 17

• Apostrophe – entire poem

• Slant rhyme – lines 12 - 13

• Brief summery

• Theme: security

Analysis of Lost

• Hyperbole – lines 1, 6• Simile – line 1• Metaphor lines 3, 4, 5, 6• Analogy - entire poem• Paradox – line 5• Personification – line 6• Theme: Acceptance• Summary

Questions

• What is your interpretation on the stanza about lost?

• What do you think “the honest recognitionof a false truth” means?

• What do you think Jewel is trying to say about being alone?

On Jewels Poem Lost

Bibliography

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewel_(singer)#Early_years

• http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0452962/bio

• http://jklastdancerodeo.tripod.com/Poetry.html

• http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0452962/bio