Literary Analysis
In a romantics society, we are immersed in many forms of poetry and dramatics that truly depict a scene of non-rewarded love. In Shakespeare's Taming of The Shrew, Petruchio and Katherine are at a stand off for love that could not be returned. As well as, Les Miserables, Eponine is madly in love with Marius but this could not be returned due to his undying affection for Cosette. In dramatic works, love and sex often carry little ties to one another creating an overtone of never rewarded infatuation. In the two poems "Sex without Love" by Sharon Olds and "Sestina" by Ciara Shuttleworth, carry the common poetic themes through metaphors showing unrequited love.
Sex is a mechanism used to demonstrate the unrequited love in both poems. The sexual verbiage in both poems shows how unrequited love is present. In "Sex without Love", it speaks about how two people can partake in such an intimate act yet have no real interest in intimacy with one another past the moment of passion. "How do they do it, the ones who make love/ without love?," shows a different perspective of unrequited love, it shows sex which is the love being ignored by the two lovers. In turn, the intimacy of the partners has non-reciprocated affection towards the …show more content…
The poem "Sestina" shows a fluctuating relationship for the author. The author seems to reminisce on something that once was, which led the poem into an emotional void. "You used/ to love/ me well.," this phrase leaves the reader feeling sad for the author as one can infer they are sad about the relationships termination. In "Sex without Love", the author seems much more optimistic about the emptiness in the unreturned love. "they are like great runners: they know they are alone," though they are seemingly content with meaningless coitus, this shows the overwhelming sense of a love that is never-the-less
In a romantics society, we are immersed in many forms of poetry and dramatics that truly depict a scene of non-rewarded love. In Shakespeare's Taming of The Shrew, Petruchio and Katherine are at a stand off for love that could not be returned. As well as, Les Miserables, Eponine is madly in love with Marius but this could not be returned due to his undying affection for Cosette. In dramatic works, love and sex often carry little ties to one another creating an overtone of never rewarded infatuation. In the two poems "Sex without Love" by Sharon Olds and "Sestina" by Ciara Shuttleworth, carry the common poetic themes through metaphors showing unrequited love.
Sex is a mechanism used to demonstrate the unrequited love in both poems. The sexual verbiage in both poems shows how unrequited love is present. In "Sex without Love", it speaks about how two people can partake in such an intimate act yet have no real interest in intimacy with one another past the moment of passion. "How do they do it, the ones who make love/ without love?," shows a different perspective of unrequited love, it shows sex which is the love being ignored by the two lovers. In turn, the intimacy of the partners has non-reciprocated affection towards the …show more content…
The poem "Sestina" shows a fluctuating relationship for the author. The author seems to reminisce on something that once was, which led the poem into an emotional void. "You used/ to love/ me well.," this phrase leaves the reader feeling sad for the author as one can infer they are sad about the relationships termination. In "Sex without Love", the author seems much more optimistic about the emptiness in the unreturned love. "they are like great runners: they know they are alone," though they are seemingly content with meaningless coitus, this shows the overwhelming sense of a love that is never-the-less