Sex without love is a nice way of saying that people can be intimate without any emotional attachment to the other person.
One part of the poem that stood out to me was "They do not mistake the lover for their own pleasure, they are like great runners: they are alone with the road surface, the cold, the wind, the fit of their shoes, their overall cardiovascular health-- just factors, like the partner in bed, and not the truth, which is the single body alone in the universe against its own best time." This means that even though people may be sexual involved, without love and emotions they are just alone in the world with no one to care for or anyone to care for them.
That feeling will eventually take a toll on the individuals involved because no one wants to feel alone or be alone. By having sex with a person that you have no feelings for can put a strain on the sexual part of the relationship.
Yes, the poem does question, through its imagery, the quality of this post-modern style sexual relationship, which is at once physically intimate and emotionally distant--and can be seen, in part, as socio-cultural commentary. The interesting thing is to get closer the the detialed working out of this in the poem's imagery, in all its ambituity. See my comments on Allen's, florina's, and Steven's blogs
ReplyDeleteI agree with you about how people can have sex and have no care in the world for them. Is happens all te time and i dont really think its a huge deal but maybe necessary for some. and when at the end when u said it will eventually take a toll thats is true ans false in my opinion. it will eventually not work out but untill then have fun while it lasts and why it does workout is cause while its in the moment both parties and both enjoying each others company regardless if there are feeling or not.
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