Sonet 30 Love is Not All by Edna
Storyboard Text
- The author of the sonnet is explaining to the audience that love is not everything. Love is not essential for survival like meat and drink. In order to survive you need to have meat and drink but you do not need love. Even though this is the first line, it is a powerful statement to let the reader know what she is trying to say. If you only have love, you would not survive, because you cannot survive on love alone. There are other things that are more essential than love.
- Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink,
- Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain;
- The author goes on to say slumber, which is sleep, is more important as well. Also, having a roof so shelter you from rain is more important. The author again gives illustrations as to why love is not important. The author uses the word "nor" twice in this line stressing the importance of sleep or having shelter. These things are essential to life. This continues to help build toward the theme of love is essential in life.
- The author uses extended metaphors in this sonnet to compare how love is not as important as the elements being describe. The use of breath, blood and bones in the sonnet shows that these things are more important. The author continues comparing love to things that a person cannot live without. Sleep, shelter, food, water are all needed. By using this comparison, it allows the reader to understand how unimportant love is. Using metaphors in this sonnet gives a good example of importance of love.
- The Turn is on line 7 for Love is Not All. The author changes the direction of the poem by stating, " Yes, many a man is making friends with death." Even thought he author previously states love is not as essential as meat, drink or event the air we breathe, she now says they some men would rather die then to live without love. This begins the change in the poem to begin the examination of why love is important. Prior to the Turn, the author lays out the reasons why love is not as important as essentials for life. This is where the author begins to lay out why love is essential. Using death shows the reader that maybe love is as important as all the other things.
- I might be driven to sell your love for peace,
- For this line in the sonnet the author is weighing the decision of if she would sell her love for peace. This is important because she is putting emphasize on how important love really is. If she could sell her love for peace, is love really that important to begin with is what she is saying. This will make the reader think on how important love is. The author could also be thinking of someone she loves. She is asking herself if she could sell her love to bring peace.
- It well may be. I do not think I would.
- The last line of the poem sums up the her decision on if love is important or not. The author says that she would not trade any of this for love. Love is as essential as breathing, food or drink. Without love, there could not be peace. Love is the answer. This also brings out the theme of the poem. Even though love is not essential to live, one needs to have love in their life to survive. Wherever there is peace, love is there also.
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