Question

Love is Not All

Edna St. Vincent Milay

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.

Which line in the poem represents a shift or turn in the poem?
A) Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink
B) Yet many a man is making friends with death
C) Pinned down by pain and moaning for release,
D) Love can not fill the thickened lung with breath,

Answer 1

B) Yet many a man is making friends with death

Step-by-step explanation:

The line that represents a shift or turn in the poem is the following one: Yet many a man is making friends with death

Answer 2

option B

Step-by-step explanation:

because at this point they are no longer defining what love isn't but rather what it is in the actions of a man.