Mock Orange, is a very intersting poem consisting of 5 stanzas. the main premise of this poem i belive is the authors disdain for intercourse and how she relates it to the mock orange smell drifting into her window.
in the first stanza, she states that it is not the moon that light up the night (a common romantic symbol) but the flowers in the yard, (often associated with first dates and crushes). I think what she is trying to say here it is not true love, what she is doing with this man.
in the second stanza she descries how she hates those flowers just as she hates sex. One of her reasons for hating sex is that the man is in control of her. she states how she hates the mans mouth civering her and his paralyzing body, which would make her unable to move and unable to speak.
in the third stanza she discusses that low, humiliating presence of union and referring to sex she feels tat no true union is ever made just two seperate entities working differently. realy unromantisicing lovemaking.
and in the last two stanzas she states how her and the man are fools for feeling anything stronger that a physicall realationship and that that smell of mock orange is drifting into the window. she states that she cannot rest with that mock orange scent ligering in the world which i feel is the idea that sex and love are closley realted.
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