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Love Is Not All. By: Edna St. Vincent Millay. A picture containing linedrawing Description automatically generated.
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ABOUT THE POEM. This poem is a contemplation by the speaker on all the ways which humans suffer for love. Millay begins by stating the things that love is not, by all the physical ways it cannot help someone in need of food, shelter, water, or sleep..
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HOW IS LOVE COMMONLY CHARACTERIZED IN LITERATURE AND IN MEDIA?.
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Fill the thickened lung with breath. Millay continues the comparison at the end of the first quatrain as she speaks here of death and the little good love will have in stopping it. In this case the “thicken[ ing ] [of] lung.” This could refer once again to drowning or more likely to tuberculosis..
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Nor a floating spar to men that sink. In this instance Millay is once again comparing love to something physically critical to human survival, a “spar.” A spar is a strong pole that is used as a mast of a ship. In this comparison, it is something a man on a sinking ship would want desperately as a way to reinforce his damaged vessel. Love would do him little good at this critical moment..
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Moaning for release. Here the speaker begins to list possible scenarios in which she might be willing to, give away “your love for peace,” as she states in the last line of the final quatrain..
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Past resolution's power. Or nagged by want past resolution's power, In this line the speaker remembers her life before the start of this love she is ruminating on . She remembers the decisions she used to make and the resolution, or determination, that they had..
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Define the speaker's attitude towards love. The speaker of the poem speaks of their feelings of love, however shows an ambivalent attitude towards the topic ..
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR.
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Edna St. Vincent Millay, ( February 22, 1892 – October 19, 1950)was an American lyrical poet and playwright..
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Also a Pulitzer Prize winner, was known as one of the most skilled sonnet writers of the 20th century, recocnized her ability to use traditional forms to articulate modern attitudes. This particular skill is on full display in "Love Is Not All,"as well as her other works..
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abstract. A child of divorce raised by single mother Cora Milley, Edna originally envisioned herself becoming a concert pianist. However, upon being told her hands were too small, she turned to writing. She took writing well, with her work being published in a famous children's magazine for four years, and honed her craft by enrolling in Vassar. Millay continued to write sonnets and other poems as well as "Aria de capo," and "The Lamp and the Bell.".
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