Discussion About Poems About Love and Sex

  Read the following selections from The Oxford Anthology of American Poetry, ed. D. Lehman, 2006. Poems about sex and love: Millay, “Rendezvous” (p. 390) Duncan, “The Torso (Passage 18)” (pp. 649-51) Wilbur, “Love Calls Us to the Things of This World” (pp. 668-9) Levertov, “The Mutes” (pp. 687-8) Hall, “When the Young Husband” (pp. 847-8) Rich, “Living in Sin” (pp. 868-9) Haas, “Misery and Splendor” (pp. 970) How do some of these poems about sex and love project images and ideas about femininity and masculinity? Discuss two or three poems.