Love is a very complicated feeling. Is it a necessity? Do you have to have love to function? Some people seem to think they can’t live without love, while others feel as if they could. Edna St. Vincent Millay’s Love is Not All sums up the balancing truth about love. She discusses how love is a necessity in life, but one does end up needing it at some point.
The poem starts out with a blunt statement. “Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink” explains that love is not to be compared to two of our main needs in life: food and water. The writer seems to start feeling this way because of a past relationship that went wrong. People tend to be resentful when heart broken. But it seems as the poem progresses, Millay’s feelings begin to shift.
Millay’s
The poem starts out with a blunt statement. “Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink” explains that love is not to be compared to two of our main needs in life: food and water. The writer seems to start feeling this way because of a past relationship that went wrong. People tend to be resentful when heart broken. But it seems as the poem progresses, Millay’s feelings begin to shift.
Millay’s