In the poem Love is Not All, the quote “meat nor drink” (Millay, 2004). This means to me that a person cannot live on love alone. A person must have food and water for their body to survive and love cannot do that. Let’s look at another quote “no sleep nor shelter from the rain” (Millay, 2004). both observations recognize that love will not replace the need to sleep and that love cannot protect you from the rain. Another important phrase: “Not a floating spar for men who sink/and rise and sink and rise and sink, and sink again” (Millay, 2004). Which symbolizes a man who drowns underwater and rises several times. The third time, man sinks into a defeated war and ends up sinking forever into the abyss of death (Millay, 2004). Millay figuratively describes that in life, people struggle and also have ups. Love will not stop misery or stop someone from dying. The lines “love cannot function like vital organs such as the kidneys, liver or lungs. Love cannot “fill the thickened lung with breath” or “cleanse the blood” (Millay, 2004). People are not ...