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- This line is saying that love is not something we need . Food, water, sleep, and a roof, are all things that are needed to survive. Love is not one of them. 
- Love is not all: it is not meat nor drinkNor slumber nor a roof against the rain;
- Love is not air that can fill the lungs. It can not fix a bone. Love is not something that can fix everything.
- Love can not fill the thickened lung with breath, Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone;
- The poetic device that stood out in this poem is the usage of extended metaphors. The extended metaphor throughout the whole poem is listing off necessities which are being compared to love. The writer uses metaphors all throughout before the turn to convince the audience that love is not necessary.  She says, "nor slumber nor a roof against the rain:". She compares love to sleep or a roof, things that are needed for survival. Before the turn, she says love is none of these things.During the turn, the writer says, "yet many a man is making friends with death".  A man is not literally making friends with "death", that's not possible. She uses this metaphor to convey the message that even though before the turn, love is not needed to survive, some will kill themselves over it. After the turn, the metaphor that one would sell love for peace is part of the larger metaphor showing what people would do for love. One cannot actually sell your love. One cannot  actually use love to provide for themselves. The whole poem is a metaphor just to show how important love really is.
- Although love is not seen as a necessity,  people will give up their lives for it. and die for it. So in some way, it must be a necessity for one to care that deeply about it.  Before this line, the writer shows love as something that's not needed.  She tells the reader that love can't fix anything. She uses the metaphor, " a man is making friends with death,,, for lack of love alone," She is saying that even though love seems not needed, one will kill themselves over it. This turn  makes the reader see the shift between not needing love to seeing it as a necessity. After the turn she uses more metaphors to prove her point that love is now needed. 
- Yet many a man is making friends with death Even as I speak, for lack of love alone. 
- One may give up things for love. Even  sacrificing their love for peace and joy for another.
- I might be driven to sell your love for peace,
- This line sarcastically states that one might give up a memory for food.  The memory is love.  The writer would not even give up love for food, as it is also a necessity. The theme is that love is somewhat a necessity. It is not actually something we need to survive, but it has such great influence on our lives that it might as well be. 
- Or trade the memory of this night for food.
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