Symbolism in The Last Night by Sharon Olds She is young and in love with a random man she barely knows. The dragon flies at the beginning of the poem symbolizes her and the man having sex. They're stuck together and sweating like it's "100 degrees at noon" in the sun. (3) She uses dragonflies because they are beautiful creatures who are not sure which other dragonfly they are making a baby with. Then, she explains herself as a drunkard who “refuses to remember, like a drunkard forgets.” (19, 20) She doesn't want to remember the next morning what she did and feels strange about having done what she did with the

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