Sharon Olds And William Shakespeare

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Sharon Olds And William Shakespeare

From the Present to the Future through the Eyes of Love
Plato once said, “At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.” What is Love? Love is “an attraction based on sexual desires: affection and tenderness felt by lovers.” (Merriam – Webster’s Dictionary) We see a lot of love, marriage, broken-hearts, lust, and sex in today society but also in poetry we read by great authors. A poem such as Sharon Olds, “Sex Without Love.” Also from the past that knew the meaning of love through his plays, poems, and especially from his sonnets, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 116 “Let me not the marriage of true minds.” I will analyze each poem and sonnet and show my own point of view and show the similarities and differences.
In Sharon Olds, “Sex Without Love,” she passionately describes the author’s disgust for casual sex. She vividly animates the immortality of lustful sex through her language variety. Olds’ clever use of imagery makes this poem come to life. Her frequently uses of similes to make the audience imagine actual events. For example, Olds describes making love as “Beautiful as dancers.” (Sharon Olds, Line #2) In this line, she questions how one can do such a beautiful act with a person whom one is not in love with. Olds also describes sex as “gliding over each other like ice skaters over the ice.”(Sharon Olds, Line #3,4) She is referring to sex as a performance. Imagine an ice-skating performance, each ice skater is performing for judges and an audience to win an award. Olds uses this simile to relate people performing for one another. When two people truly are in love, there is no need for any special show or performance. Another simile the author uses is “As wet as the children at birth whose mothers are going to give them away,” (Sharon Olds, Line #6,7,8) to simulate a sweaty lovemaking scene. The simile “light rising slowly as steam off their joined skin” (Sharon Olds, Line #11,12,13) can also be used to perceive the same image of a hot, sweaty, and passionate love making scene. The author repeatedly questions how two people who are not in love can perform such a spiritual act. The simile “As wet as the children at birth whose mothers are going to give them away,” can also be used to represent the outcome of lustful copulation. When two people engage in sexual activities, a large percent of the mothers choose to ignore the outcome and either abort or give their children up for adoption. Olds compares the lovers with “g...

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