i want to know who the speaker is in this sonnet?

Question

Sonnet 30 by 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 can not 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. I do not think I would.

Edna St. Vincent Millay was a playwright and a lyrical poet. Lyric poetry is a form of poetry that is of a personal nature. Rather than portraying characters and actions, as do epic poetry and dramatic poetry, the lyric poet addresses the reader directly, portraying his or her own feelings, states of mind, and perceptions. Does...

My question is:
Is the speaker of this particular sonnet Millay herself. And if she is the speaker who can she possibly be refering to when she says 'your love'? Who's love is it!

Answer 1

It's the poets own voice for sure. When she talks about your love, she means the reader of the sonnet. She is drawing them into her own world and experiences and helping you to make an emotional connection by directly involving you in her work.