Essay on the poem "summer love" byy marilyn chin eng 1006

“Summer Love” is a poem written by Marilyn Chin about a girl’s range of emotion as she experiences uncommitted relationships over her summer vacation. The girl starts out detached from any sort of serious feelings for her partner. As the poem progresses she expresses lust and gets physical with her partner which then causes her to be concerned over her brief, uncommitted encounters and the possibility of playing with someone else’s emotions.
It is determined that the speaker in the poem is female when it says “vulva,” which is female-only anatomy. The speaker also has a carefree attitude. She appears to be apathetic towards her partners over the summer and is quite optimistic at the end when she decides not to worry about things.
The poem has shifts in settings. In the first stanza she is cooking and she asks her partner not to stay long. This implies that they are at her dwelling. You could also assume that they are someplace near the ocean because she is cooking bay o...