Recreation By Audre Lorde: Depicting The Act Of Love

The poem that we are talking about here is more of a sex writing poem, it is basically written as though the author is going through the experience. It is depicting the act of love, making love, enjoying the pleasure, giving to the body, always leaving wanting for more. As we also see the title here it says recreation, this shows how these two people are basically made up of each other, they create one another. In the poem when the author says “I made you and you made into me” is an act of recreation.

The first few lines of the poem suggests that, it is easier to work on the poem when the two are together, but also that the objects mentioned like paper and pen, it is saying that even if they wrote it out, it wouldn’t matter, or have any profit, so they can leave it at a side and make love instead, because they can gain pleasure with it but the pen and paper do not benefit anything

This poem that we speak of is also different than many other poems, in the sense that it does not give generalized explanations about love. Love might be different to all of us in certain ways how we imagine or fantasize it with our companion, for few it might be hurtful and for few it maybe the only wish they ever asked for to come true. There is no definition that can be fixed on love. It is a feeling that cannot be described.

The lines “we cut the leash, you create me against your thighs” portrays, the soul wanting love to be unleashed and be created. The next line indicates when the author imagines the other half in images where they are making love and the scene in the above lines, wild love, yet subtle. The author writes the poem in a way where she shows that she wants her soul mate to be her poem, she writes her lover, makes the companion a whole poetry. The poem she writes of her lover is making her floret.

Audre lorde, a classic poet of 1960’s. she was more of a multicultural self, as taken from the sources she liked to call her self as a mother, a warrior. Making Love and to fulfil sexual desires and giving it a name of love is not love. Love is even when you can feel the other persons soul inside your body, when you feel as one, it is the feeling of being whole in the arms of your lover, and when love is felt like that, it is left wanting for more, and that is what the poem renders to us.