Poets such as Sharon Olds and Andrew Marvell view love and relationships differently. These poets reveal this through their tone and diction throughout their poems. Sharon Olds describes love and relationships as being intimate on an emotional level with a loved one. However, Andrew Marvell’s perception on love and relationships is seen as having sexual intercourse early because there is no time to be wasted on romance. The truth is that love is not always what it seems to be.
Sometimes one couple will crave more than intimacy. They will long for sexual pleasure than the other partner. For example in the poem To His Coy Mistress Marvell’s tone leads us to believe that he wants to skip the romance and get physical. At first, he debated that …show more content…
In her poem Last Night she addresses how she felt about sleeping with her supposed “boyfriend”. She uses words such as “No tenderness” (13) and “I refuse to remember” (19) to emphasize that it was not a great experience for her. She reveals that sexual intimacy does not matter that she actually wants to be intimate with someone at an emotional level where they can feel safe with one another. She dearly explained how her lover handled her by saying “You secured me in your arms till I slept” (26), a perfect representation of what she longs for, she wants someone to make her feel secure not have someone to question her life choices. In the end, most partners will entice one with pleasant words and actions to obtain what they need, while others will actually want to be romantic and expect nothing of it, they will want to take their time so that it more meaningful to …show more content…
Many poets describe love and relationships showing their perspective on how they see affection towards someone and how romance works. Some poets strongly impose that without sexual intimacy love can decay and relationships will perish while other poets see that to have a successful romance with someone one has to be intimate on an emotional level, not sexual level. So love and relationships can be described differently, but at the end of the day, all partners have to have true feelings to one another not to pressure their lovers to obtain what they
Sometimes one couple will crave more than intimacy. They will long for sexual pleasure than the other partner. For example in the poem To His Coy Mistress Marvell’s tone leads us to believe that he wants to skip the romance and get physical. At first, he debated that …show more content…
In her poem Last Night she addresses how she felt about sleeping with her supposed “boyfriend”. She uses words such as “No tenderness” (13) and “I refuse to remember” (19) to emphasize that it was not a great experience for her. She reveals that sexual intimacy does not matter that she actually wants to be intimate with someone at an emotional level where they can feel safe with one another. She dearly explained how her lover handled her by saying “You secured me in your arms till I slept” (26), a perfect representation of what she longs for, she wants someone to make her feel secure not have someone to question her life choices. In the end, most partners will entice one with pleasant words and actions to obtain what they need, while others will actually want to be romantic and expect nothing of it, they will want to take their time so that it more meaningful to …show more content…
Many poets describe love and relationships showing their perspective on how they see affection towards someone and how romance works. Some poets strongly impose that without sexual intimacy love can decay and relationships will perish while other poets see that to have a successful romance with someone one has to be intimate on an emotional level, not sexual level. So love and relationships can be described differently, but at the end of the day, all partners have to have true feelings to one another not to pressure their lovers to obtain what they