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- "Love is not all: it is not meat nor drinkNor slumber nor a roof against the rain"
- These lines of the poem are describing what love is not. It isn't food, water, sleep or shelter. These are all essentials to life which correlate with the theme of the poem. Love is not everything, yet people suffer from it.
- 3:30
- ""Love can not fill the thickened lung with breath, Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone"
- Along with the first lines of the poem, the poet is listing what love cannot do since people take risks for love. In this line she is saying that love can not save lives or rid people of illness.
- Literary devices make a poem stronger. Millay uses multiple in Sonnet 30. One example is at the beginning of the poem "Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone" is a line that exemplifies alliteration. The repetition of consonant sounds strengthens the rhyme scheme and structure of the poem.
- The turn shifts the speaker's tone and establishes the theme of the poem. This is found on line seven, "Yet a man is making friends with death". Before this, the poet discusses what love is not capable of. However, this turn allows Millay to describe how people may suffer from love. In this part of the poem, she is referencing the idea that men choose death because of love.
- It well may be that in a difficult hour, Pinned down by pain and moaning for release
- The speaker's tone is uncertain about love and its value. These lines correlate with the following lines of the poem and how the poet perceives love and its relation to survival.
- Overall, Millay is establishing the theme that love is essential to life. Hence why she compares it to food, shelter, and other elements of life.
- These final lines wrap up the theme for the poem. The poet is conveying that although she doesn't understand the lengths people go through for love, she can understand why people choose it over peace or means of survival.
- I might be driven to sell your love for peace, Or trade the memory of this night for food. It well may be. I do not think I would.
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