Sex Without Love Poem Analysis

The narrator presents the behavior of the characters completely cold and with lack of eroticism, which are described on line three an empty way two bodies: “Gliding over each”. In this manner Sharon Olds presents her vision of the body as the center of any perception of the world in the poem "Sex Without Love". The author stands above the rest of his generation for his naked language, clarity and evocative force. In her writings, Sharon speaks lover, herself as a daughter, wife, mother, emphasizing the themes of couple, family ties, social or religious. The narrator of this poem could be a spectator to which we will call the subject. At first, the subject is asked alarmed how sex without love is possible. The author uses a gaunt and temperate language in the experience of closeness, …show more content…
In this poem the images are drawn where the body is the principle and purpose of all comprehension. In the last words of the poem, Sharon compares lovers with runners in lines sixteen to eighteen: “They do not/mistake the lover for their own pleasure,/they are like great runners...”, which have common goal. For runners the goal is to win and for lovers the pleasure. Runners and lovers are never alone, being that lovers depend on their partners to get the pleasure and runners of his opponents to win. For writer, this behavior (sex without love) it is another valid form of communion, but in this case the subject with itself without the intervention of another instance superior or others. Definitely, if we were to choose, most people decided by sex with love. But for some people they do not find it so easy to feel love. Consequently, sex without love for some people, it is just as valid or even more than sex with love. Ultimately each person describes his feelings in the way that best we can, like it or invent. Everyone has their own perception of what is love, appreciation, affection or