Sharon Old Sex Without Love

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How does Sharon Olds poem Sex without Love present loveless sex and how it affects people? Sharon Olds poem ‘Sex without Love’ is set in the form of questions and it flows on to give the answer to the questions asked. Olds poem is simple and presents strong and thorough view the use of the style irony. The profound sense of the poem is done with the use of common things such as the use of new born children, ice skaters, and joggers. At the beginning of the poem Olds asked the question “How do they do It? The ones who have sex without love. Olds then went on to answer her own question by use of a metaphor. She says “Beautiful… like ice skaters over ice”. Olds associates the act of sex without love to some people going ice skating.

Ice skaters are just people who are doing the act of skating just for the pleasure and the fun of it for them, I would fall my butt if I tried to ice skate. Likewise, she compared sex without love to ice skating and stated that the act involves individual satisfaction of happiness. The use of ice-skates on ice is also symbolic of how sex without love is cold and without feelings just like the ice that the ice skaters are skating on line six,” wet as the children at birth, give them away” depicts an abandoned image as she states that the mother are giving them up for adaption. …show more content…

Olds could be using this line as a metaphor to portray that sex without love may result to having undesirable pregnancies and unwanted children and the mother, once she gives birth to the child will not see the baby as a source of joy. Olds has also used religious undertones when talking about sex without love. “…come to the God…”, “…false Messiah love the priest instead of the

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