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- Love is not all; it is not meat nor drink
- This line explains that love is not fulfilling in all aspects of life. Someone can not survive on love alone. This line is important because it gets straight to the point and immediately supports the theme. The theme is the infinite mystery of love. Even though love is not as important as other necessities in life, the poet would put it before peace or even food. Love is not crucial for survival, but is central to life.
- This line emphasizes that love is not the answer for everything. Love can not heal physical injuries. This line supports the theme further by addressing what love can not do. Love is a mystery because as humans we can live without it, but we choose not to. For something not as important, it controls our lives. A lot of decisions that humans make are based on love.
- Love can not fill the thickened lung with breath, Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone;
- Imagery is present in this poem. The poet uses imagery to draw the reader into a sensory experience. The line "Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink And rise and sink and rise and sink again;" represents imagery because it creates a mental image of a floating spar sinking and rising. Imagery helps the reader visual the thoughts and ideas the poet is trying to communicate. Another example of imagery is "Love can not fill the thickened lung with breath, Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone." This line helps the reader visualize what love can't do. The mental image encourages the reader to better understand the theme of mysterious love.
- The turn in line twelve starts to introduce a new perspective on love. Before the turn, the poem denounces love and lists everything it can't fix. The poet has a negative tone and makes love appear unworthy or unnecessary. However, after the turn, the poet sheds a new light on love. The poet would choose love over peace and food, which is a turning point because food is a necessity and love is not. The turning point  displays the theme that love is a mystery because even though it's not necessary for survival, humans can not live without it. 
- This line represents the personal battle that the poet is having with love. The logical answer for survival is to trade the memory of this night for food. Food is a necessity and is required to live. In the following line, the reader will see that the poet goes against this logic. People would have to choose food over the memory of love in order to continue to live, but most would choose love over life. A reason why may be that people don't see a life without love to be worth living.
- "Or trade the memory of this night for food." 
- "It well may be. I do not think I would."
- This line concludes the theme that love is a mystery. Even though the poet is aware that food and peace is more crucial than love, they would still choose love over anything else. This is a mystery because it doesn't make sense unless survival isn't the end goal. The tone of the poem questions why the poet would choose love over food and peace.  This line is important to the poem because it completes the theme.  The theme comes full circle when the poet would choose love over life. 
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