Thursday, March 25, 2010
SEX WITHOUT LOVE
In this story Sharon Old's is expressing her opinion about having sex without emotion. How a beautiful act, a spiritual act, can become something disturbing. She creates a very clear picture for us which is sex withour love is unpure and just doing it merely for the sake of pleasure is wrong. "Wet as the children at birth whose mothers are going to give them away," this line was quite disturbing in the story because in reality, men and women in nature were made to pro-create, and it's almost telling us that those who do have sex without love are going to be the ones who give away their unplanned children. Liked the fact that the story was very blunt and easy to understand on the surface, although there were a few things to understand under the ice, they were explained in nice words.
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True, the imagery does express the speaker's critical stance, but don't write it off too quickly as simply judgemental--see the Olds study sheet for comments on the ambiguity of the poem's tone and attitude. Also, study the imagery closely to get a sense of the complexity of that attitude--like figures cut in ice:the imagery condenses a lot: sharpness/danger, sterile beauty, pain,admiration at the technical precision; sex as both "desirable and frightening" as Ostriker puts it...
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