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4th line from bottom: "or nagged by want past resolution's power," (want=need)

Sonnet 30
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. But I do not think I would.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

2006-11-16 13:31:49 · 6 answers · asked by ruthvon11 2 in Arts & Humanities Books & Authors

6 answers

Reminded constantly, without the possibility of fixing the problem,because that bridge is burned; even though you're constantly thinking about the "want"-....maybe BECAUSE that bridge was burned.

2006-11-16 14:56:24 · answer #1 · answered by chikensnsausages 3 · 0 0

The Garden of Proserpine by Algernon Charles Swinburne penultimate stanza of the poem: From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea. -the poem reminds me that in the end there is the void where we all must go alone. where all, good and bad, ends.

2016-05-21 21:47:21 · answer #2 · answered by Karin 4 · 0 0

Regret

2006-11-16 15:27:23 · answer #3 · answered by Lil Girl 2 · 1 0

It means that the poet is in pain from love and can't get passed it. It nags at him and he can't do anything about it.

2006-11-16 13:35:56 · answer #4 · answered by pupcake 6 · 2 0

in my oppinion she is talking about being haunted by past orgasm's

2006-11-16 13:51:23 · answer #5 · answered by decoyrant 2 · 0 1

it means someone has a tough class...

2006-11-16 13:33:49 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

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