Sharon Olds

Sharon Olds Poetry Essay Sharon Olds writes her poems in a way that establishes intimate connection with the reader and creates deep meanings, expressing her personal and emotional family life in her poems. Sharon Olds uses methods of literary techniques such as metaphor, repetition, alliteration, imagery and symbolism to convey meaning in her poems. Olds’s poems, "The victims" , "One Year", "The Race", and "The Daughter Goes to Camp" have different meanings that reflect on her life. Olds’s…

Throughout the poem "The Race," Sharon Olds describes the journey of a desperate daughter seeking to spend time with her father who is awaiting death. Uneasy about the tragic news, the daughter persevere through many obstacles to achieve her goals. Olds implements specific diction and similes to convey the daughter’s sentiments. Thus, Old establishes an atmosphere of despair throughout out her poem. Notably, Olds mentions the daughter did not have time on her side. Hence, it demonstrates the…

“What it Meant” by Sharon Olds is a poem about the greatest beauty on Earth, the birth of a child. Olds displaces the beauty of giving birth using religious diction and allusions to the birth of Jesus. Although many already see the beauty in the birth of a child, this poem shows great admiration towards women who have given birth and their own mothers for what they went through. This poem forces women to view their bodies as miraculous and as beautiful as it truly is, as beautiful as the Virgin…

Last night What is love? That is the question focused around what Sharon Olds wrote in Last night. She focused on loves true intendency. Broken into two pieces she discussed a casual sexual experience compared to a meaningful experience with love. She used things like animals, boats and use of body contact as an estimate in this evaluation. She does this to portray the dramatic difference in these experiences. Olds writes this poem as one long continues poem however it is evident that they are…

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…

In Sharon Old’s poem, “The Planned Child” she conveys the theme of the realization of the value of one’s life and the coming of age through the use of symbolism, imagery, and point of view. When the speaker says “I hated the fact that they planned me,” (line 1), this shows us that the speaker finds her conception as an emotionless, meaningless event. In this poem, you will see the speakers attitude changing from hatred, then to doubt, and then to gratitude for her mother having planned her…

In “On the Subway”, Sharon Olds brings two worlds into close proximity using imagery, symbolism, and diction. Through these literary devices, the reader can understand the insight the narrator is trying to create. These literary devices help the reader understand the differences of the two worlds Sharon is writing about. Olds uses imagery to provide a visual representation of the two characters in the poem. In the poem, the narrator in on a subway, and ends up sitting across from a boy.…

The Planned Child “ A mother might give birth to a child, but before that a child gives birth to a mother”. The poem named "The Planned Child" by Sharon Old is a commendation to parents who wish a child so much as to plan for conceiving. This poem is of a women who knows that her mother and father went through lot of efforts to plan her conception. The first stanza draws the picture of disgust of the speaker of being a planned child. The speaker of the poem considers her conception as an…

give a poem a natural and unpredictable flow that can be quite alluring. In Sharon Olds’ poem, “Poem of Thanks,” there are multiple enjambments and great examples of the craft for the purpose of keeping the reader captivated with the storyline. Specifically, for this annotation, I will focus on the beginning lines (1-3), the in between lines ending with pronouns/articles (7,10, 11, 12), and the last three lines (25-27). Olds’ poem is in 27 lines, 6 sentences, and in one stanza. The poem…

“Stealing” by Carol Ann Duffy and “The Planned Child” by Sharon Olds both explore themes of issues in our modern world using similar poetic devices, as well as contrasting devices. “Stealing” describes a thief explaining how he stole a snowman, and what has led him to commit crimes. “The Planned Child” is about a child who hated the fact that she was planned, but realises that her mother loves her anyway. The tone and mood of the two poems are unlike and each conveys the poem’s themes uniquely.…