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  • Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink
  • LOVE?????
  • Millay states that “Love is not all;”. She continues on to say, it is not either meat or drink. She throws in also to get the reader's attention. It is also neither, “slumber nor a roof against the rain.” These are all things that are critical to human survival, shelter, sleep, food, and water. They are definitely opposite with the emotion of love, something that Millay is hoping to get her readers to understand. She is attempting to lessen loves importance by comparing to things one physically cannot live without.
  • Millay is once again comparing love to something physically critical to human survival, a “spar.” A spar is a strong pole that is used as a mast of a ship. In this comparison, it is something a man on a sinking ship would want desperately as a way to reinforce his damaged vessel. Love would do him little good at this critical moment. In the next line we see a repetition of the motions of a drowning man as he sinks below the surface only to rise up again and sink once more.
  • Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink. And rise and sink and rise and sink again.
  • CONTRAST Contrast means difference, and sometimes opposite, but contrast can also happen when the two things are just very different. There are many types of contrast. These are a few of the most common ones such as visual, emotional, personal and social/cultural contrast. In this poem we see emotional contrast. The author uses Love as a means to show the different things that men will do for it. But ultimately once cannot survive, live or breathe just on it alone. You can have all the money in the world but without love you can be alone and miserable.
  • The author references all the comparisons above and is basically saying that even with all the truths that have been presented to the readers, men still kill themselves because they do not have love. The author seems to be in disbelief as if she has a hard time understanding how this could possibly be the case.
  • Yet many a man is making friends with death. Even as I speak, for lack of love alone.
  • I do not think I would.
  • In this conclusion line of this poem the author considers once more that she may “sell your love,” but concludes that, even with all her rational arguments throughout the sonnet, she does not think she would. This final turn in the last line of the poem shows the author to be just as human and subject to the control love places over one’s decisions as all those she formally references.
  • Understatement Understatement is the description of something as having much less of a particular quality than it does. The author creates a “turn” in the poem’s meaning at the end, which implies that despite the inability of love to sustain life or provide for the necessities of survival, it might actually be more valuable than life itself. While the speaker in the start provides a general definition for love as not being as essential as the necessities of life or life itself, she, however, does reveal that love has some value by the end of the poem.
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