I would choose “Sex without love” by Sharon Olds because I think the topic is sensitive to the readers. The introduction lines asked “how do they do it, the ones who make love without love?” After posing the serious question, Olds asks us how love can define a couple without love. She consider sex and love are topics that together that leaves many people question in the society, especially the religious view. Sex without love is presented in this poem as cold and detached. From what she portrays here is somewhat controversial. Many people who have a desired for sexual activities but they don’t love each …show more content…
I observe she mostly disgust for casual sex. It can shows by her use of imagery to grabs attention of the readers. Again her open lines “how do they do it, the ones who make love without love?” displays a negative tone as if the speaker was in disgust. When I read the next few lines, she tells that the characters are gliding over each other as ice skaters, which means somewhat beautiful and elegance scene. I was kind of confused about her tone at with these lines; I don’t know whether she describes the dance as a lovely act or one of pure disgust? But I do know one thing is her comparison of sexual partners without love to dancers illustrate the act of sex without love is somewhat an illusion of love and happiness. Olds strongly repels those individuals who illuminate the significance of body’s attraction or physical fitness, and how these element lead to the sexual