Love Is Not All

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Poetry Analysis : Love is not all

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Poetry reveals the emotions of the speaker . It will give happy thoughts if the speaker is happy but the opposite if the speaker is sad . Poems exist because of emotional certainties and uncertainties . That is why poems are more ideal and complex rather than other forms of literary pieces . The poem entitled Love is not all ' by Edna St . Vincent Millay discusses the meaning of love . The whole poem wants to say the truth

about love - the destiny of people and how humans treat love at all There are also different emerging figurative languages throughout the poem , which discusses the problems and dilemma of being in love Therefore , the theme of this poem is love as it unravels the sadness and deepness of affection through metaphorical justification of the speaker 's emotions

The speaker of this poem wants to convey one thing - love is not perfect . He wants to justify his emotions through the different experiences in his life . Based on the message of the poem , the speaker is a man who wants to share his distress , defeat , and fall in loving his woman . The speaker compares love to a drink , meat , roof , floating spar air , and medicine . These things symbolize many concepts that strengthen the idea and context of love . Drink and meat symbolize life , roof symbolizes shed or shelter , a floating par symbolizes life saver , air symbolizes breath , and medicine symbolizes cure . Love is...