Jewel Kilcher

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Jewel Kilcher

• By Alynne Edmondson and Brianna Harrison

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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 56
• 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

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Sample Poems
So just kiss me
I Keep Expecting You To
What I wanted
I am not from here
Insecurity

• Lost

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Lost
Desperationthe honest recognitionof a false
truth Hopeseeing who you really areat your
highestis who you will become Gracethe
refinement of a Soul through time

• Lost is a puzzleof starsthat breatheslike
  waterand chewslike stone
•    Aloneis a reminderof how faracceptanceis
  fromunderstanding
•    Fearis a birdthat believes itselfinto
  extinction

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So Just Kiss me

• So just kiss me and let my hairmessy 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
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What I wanted
I am not from here
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 guess what Iwanted wasto hear
• you'd stay with me always.
• I guess what Iwanted wasto see
• those hands vowingnever to leave my own.
• I guess whatI wanted wasto know
• I am not loving in vain.

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Insecurity

• you don't callI check againI become
  uneasy-  is this a frame?Suddenly i'm not so
  sureI check my sourceseach conversation becomes
  a crumbhow easily I'm ledhow stupid I've
  beento believeyou could beloving meyou who
  can not be seducedby anything other thanthe
  temperanceof need  each one facilitating the
  nextand suddenly I see my placethe phone
  ringsyou say hellobut I don't believe you

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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 awkwardhangingfrom
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
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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

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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

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Questions
On Jewels Poem Lost

• 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?

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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