Mock Orange is a poem written by Louise Gluck. This poem consist of five stanzas and seems to be about Gluck's hatred of becoming one entity with your partner when your having sex.
I looked up what a mock orange is and it is a type of plant that looks similar to orange plants, but aren't really orange plants. I feel like Gluck uses mock orange as the title of this poem to symbolize how during sex you seem like one entity, but really you are just two separate people.
In the first stanza Gluck expresses her hatred of the plants that light up the yard.
She continues to express her hatred for these plants in the second stanza. Gluck compares the hatred of these plants to her hatred of sex.
In the third stanza Gluck talks about how there is a premise of union when you're having sex. I believe she is implying that this is why she hates sex.
During the fourth stanza Gluck begins to question if there is a union during sex, but as soon as her partner and herself finish she realizes that they were made fools of. They weren't really one entity, but two separate people. At the end of this stanza Gluck talks about the scent of the plants coming back. This scent symbolize why she hates sex and that is because during sex her partner and herself seem like something they are not, just like the mock orange.
In the last stanza Gluck questions how she can rest knowing that scent is always going to be in the world. For her the scent symbolizes that she will never be one entity with her partner when they have sex.
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