Love Is Not All: It Is Not Meat nor Drink
by Edna St. Vincent Millay
This poem is from her 1931 collection, Fatal Interview. Click here for the text. The text is also in The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry, Vol 1. Click here for an audio reading by Walter Rufus Eagles.
Discussion questions:
1. In what ways does the poem meet and defy your expectations of a sonnet?2. What kinds of things does the poet say may be exchanged for love? How might these exchanges take place?
3. What is the effect of the final half-line: "I do not think I would"?
Created by Stan Galloway 26 July 2005. Last updated 15 September 2005. Contact me at sgallowa@bridgewater.edu