Download Poem Four Sonnet 30 by Edna St. Vincent Millay (American) Love is

First task for each poem: For each poem you will write a paragraph in which you will summarize the poem's
meaning, identify the speaker, topic, plot, and characters. Some poems will not have each of these features, so
include all you can. Every poem has at least the three elements we discussed last class (Speaker, Audience, and
Message). For "Those Winter Sundays" you will only have to complete this single task. REMEMBER TO DO THIS
FIRST TASK FOR EACH POEM.
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Poem Four
Sonnet 30
by Edna St. Vincent Millay (American)
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 pain 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 well may be. But I do not think I would.
Second Task for Edna St. Vincent Millay's "Sonnet 30"
Sonnets are a type of poetry with specific structure, rhyme, and meter. This type of poem also
presents a problem and gives a solution at the end. In a few sentences explain the meter and rhyme
of the poem. Next, choose one word which is the best example of onomatopoeia. Explain why this
word is a better example than others in the poem. Finally, identify the rhyme which is an
approximate or half-rhyme. Suggest an exact rhyme which would still work well in the poem.