This paper is going to be about the poem, “Sex Without Love”written by Sharon Olds, who graduated from Stanford University and an author of several books of poetry. In the poem, the narrator is having a lot of questions and asking many things to the reader. It almost sounds like the narrator do not understand why people are able to have sex without sharing love. There are a lot of meanings in this poem and most of them cannot be seen from directly reading the poem. As the title of the poem is called, “Sex Without Love”, the author ask the reader about how do people have sex without love in the beginning of the poem. It felt like the author is not directly bashing on the people who perform intercourse without any signs of love to each other.
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However, the poem is not showing much signs of anger and try to sound lighthearted by trying not to bash on those people that the author do not admire of their actions. In the beginning, the poem says, “Beautiful as dancers, gliding over each other like ice-skaters over the ice, fingers hooked inside each other 's bodies”. The author is using kind words and expressing how enjoyable and fun sex can be. However, the author wrote, “faces red as steak, wine, wet as the children at birth whose mothers are going to give them away”. The tone suddenly changed and sounds bloody, and the author starts talking about God and false Messiah is not accepted. At the end part of the poem, the author is basically saying that these people are not dumb. There is just no meaning in sex to …show more content…
In the beginning, she wrote, “Beautiful as dancers, gliding over each other like ice-skaters over the ice, fingers hooked inside each other 's bodies”, and she was basically expressing the impression and the feeling of intercourse. At the end of the poem, the poet was talking about those people as great runners. Heart rate can increase while either running or performing sexual activity and runners do not seem to care. The only thing runners care is winning.
There are couple ways to identify what type of poem is “Sex without Love”. In the beginning, the poem tends to help the reader picture about visualize what it like to have sex and the beauty of it by comparing the activity with two dancers gliding over each other while ice skating and having their fingers hooked inside each other’s body. As the poem goes more inside, it sounds like a poem that is trying to be persuasive that sex without sharing love with each other is not a rightful activity without actually telling the readers
However, the poem is not showing much signs of anger and try to sound lighthearted by trying not to bash on those people that the author do not admire of their actions. In the beginning, the poem says, “Beautiful as dancers, gliding over each other like ice-skaters over the ice, fingers hooked inside each other 's bodies”. The author is using kind words and expressing how enjoyable and fun sex can be. However, the author wrote, “faces red as steak, wine, wet as the children at birth whose mothers are going to give them away”. The tone suddenly changed and sounds bloody, and the author starts talking about God and false Messiah is not accepted. At the end part of the poem, the author is basically saying that these people are not dumb. There is just no meaning in sex to …show more content…
In the beginning, she wrote, “Beautiful as dancers, gliding over each other like ice-skaters over the ice, fingers hooked inside each other 's bodies”, and she was basically expressing the impression and the feeling of intercourse. At the end of the poem, the poet was talking about those people as great runners. Heart rate can increase while either running or performing sexual activity and runners do not seem to care. The only thing runners care is winning.
There are couple ways to identify what type of poem is “Sex without Love”. In the beginning, the poem tends to help the reader picture about visualize what it like to have sex and the beauty of it by comparing the activity with two dancers gliding over each other while ice skating and having their fingers hooked inside each other’s body. As the poem goes more inside, it sounds like a poem that is trying to be persuasive that sex without sharing love with each other is not a rightful activity without actually telling the readers