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Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink. Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain; Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink. And rise and sink and rise and sink again; Love can not fill the thickened lung with breath, Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone; Yet many a man is making friends with death.
- The Courage That My Mother Had
Edna St. Vincent Millay was born in Rockland, Maine, on...
- The Courage That My Mother Had
‘ Love Is Not All’, also referred to as Sonnet XXX, is a traditional Shakespearean sonnet with fourteen lines of iambic pentameter. It consists of three quatrains and a couplet at the end. The poem was first published in Collected Poems, in 1931 and remains one of Edna St. Vincent Millay’s most popular works.
Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink. Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain; Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink. And rise and sink and rise and sink again; Love can not fill the thickened lung with breath, Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone; Yet many a man is making friends with death.
“Love Is Not All” is one of the incredible sonnets of Edna St. Vincent Millay, first published in the sonnet sequence, Fatal Interview (1931). This collection features the love affair between Millay and poet George Dillon, whom she first met at a poetry reading at the University of Chicago in 1928.
Dive deep into Edna St. Vincent Millay's Love is not all with extended analysis, commentary, and discussion.
“Love is Not All” is a poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay which presents her cynical view of love and how love fails to provide for the basic necessities of life. It was written in 1931, and was included in her collection Fatal Interview with other 52 sonnets.
Love Is Not All: It Is Not Meat nor Drink is a 1931 poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay, written during the Great Depression.
