Love and Lust in Play-By-Play, Sex without Love, and Junior Year Abroad

Love and Lust in Play-By-Play, Sex without Love, and younger Year Abroad Lust is an incredibly strong feeling that give the axe prove to be almost uncontrollable, hold ining it to commonly be infatuated for love. Due to the relative closeness of these emotions, both are often confused, and regular(a) when one is in love he or she does not distinguish it. Many think that love just comes knocking on ones brink and one will know when it does, but they dont realize that for love to come out a kinship has must be worked out. Love is described by some as fireworks, tingles, and butterflies in the stomach but it is lust that rump cause these things to happen, and it is these that mark only the beginning of a relationship. After a while, these feelings die out, and this is when the honeymoon period is over it is from this point on that the relationship will either end or get stronger and eventually lead to true love. Lust is the main idea behind the poem Play-By-Pla y by Joan Murray. The tale being told is of older women well past their sixties admiring practically younger men playing softball from up on a terrace over-looking the field. The women are gawking at the flex of a batters hips before his lost swing, the wide-spread stride of a valet picked off his base, the intensity on the sweet mans face as he waits on deck and fans the air. (Murray 837) The poem goes on to tell of the women, who ...havent put aside desire/ but sit at ease and in pleasure,/ watching the young men (Murray 837). This work plain shows how the women lust after the attractive young men, and clearly are not in love any one of these men could have been replaced with other attractive man and would have m... ...ediately, and she would have realized the mistake she had made. In this poem the main character is lustful of both the new man she has met in Paris as well as the man she left-hand(a) behind her homeland, although she was under the false percep tion that it was love. The often confused lyric love and lust are becoming used interchangeably more(prenominal) and more both day. Indeed, many definitions are being loosened up and many address are used improperly. When people use the words love and lust, they should be more careful which word it is that they mean to say. WORKS CITED Meyer, Michael, ed. Thinking and Writing most Literature. Second Edition. New York Bedford/St. Martins, 2001. o Joan Murray, Play-By-Play. Meyer. 837-838. o Sharon Olds, Sex Without Love. Meyer. 838. Barbara Rebecca, lower-ranking Year Abroad. Meyer. 839.