LITERARY TREASURE

Sonnet XXX
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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 cannot fill the thickened lung with breath
Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone;
Yet many a man is making friends with death
even as I speak, for lack of love alone.
It well may be that in a difficult hour,
pinned down by need and moaning for release
or nagged by want past resolution's power,
I might be driven to sell your love for peace,
Or trade the memory of this night for food.
It may well be. I do not think I would.

What I think about this poem is that it’s something real deep. Everything it says its true. Most people think that getting in love can cure the lonely nights; my thought is that love should just come to you and not looked for I also think love should be valued and the thing is that many people don’t know how to love. That’s really too bad because my thought is that love is essential. I have never been in love before. Well I thought I was, but I just realized it was an obsession that’s all. To be honest my philosophy on dating is not that good because guys come and they go and even if they don’t come they still have to go. That sometimes just encourages to just chill and wait until I find that special someone to come to my life. This poem is such a good example for people that do this often. Well love is always a good thing but sometime it may hurt you. But in reality people can’t live with it and can’t live without it. Like I say I have never fallen in love but when I do hopefully it goes good because I don’t want to end up with a broken heart. This poem is a great example of true love although it’s described as love isn’t a thing you could just feel when your hurt. It’s something way more powerful. I also think what its trying to say that love someone but with expectations. I really believe that because sometimes love gets out of hand and that’s when the relationship is done. That’s why I choose this interesting poem I just love the way she expresses herself about this poem. My thought is that hopefully I could write an important poem when I grow up that has an interesting meaning and also that someone could give the poem to someone they love. I really thought the poem was fascinating.