Most Hated Father

Most Hated Father In the book, “The Living and The Dead,” by Sharon Olds the author makes writes poems about her view on images of life and death and what she associates each with. This anthology seems to be mostly influenced by her family, from her hated father and grandfather, to her growing children. Olds finds inspiration to associate life and death with her relatives.In “The Living and The Dead” Sharon Olds breaks the …

…the idea of a non-sexual woman as being frozen, and of a sexual woman as being hot. In her book, “The Living and the Dead” Sharon Olds writes about her family, who are either living or now dead or is associated as one or the other by her. From her grandparents, she draws on death, and on her children she draws on life. That is that the life cycle goes, old=death, young=life, vibrancy.