Rely on Love in Life in Love Is Not All: Not Meat nor DrinkRely on Love in Life in Love is Not All: Not Meat nor DrinkEdna St. Vincent Millay was born in Rockland, Maine, in 1892. She later settled down in New York City, where she became famous for her lyric poetry, especially as a writer of sonnets. Millay was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. She was also known for writing poetry about nature and politics, as well as short stories, plays, and a libretto for opera. In her poem Love is Not All: Not Meat nor Drink, she reveals the purpose of love that is shared between two people, but should we always rely on this love. The main question she asks her readers is to think do we need that special love to balance our daily lives. Millay gives the readers that there will never be a correct or wrong answer, because we all know that love is not all there is in life, even though we may want it to be.
Lorenzo Doria Bambino was born in Dusseldorf, Germany, in 1898. He went on leave in 1941 as the German ambassador to Munich, the United States. In 1938 he was appointed by the Soviet occupation government’s highest court and was the third-ranking official of the Communist party from 1948 until 1972. He was released from prison in 1976 but returned to Czechoslovakia.[1][2]
In 1962 he was elected as the first German official to be voted President of a major western union, S.O.S. (Social Labor Union). The post went from being a member of a committee of the Communist party to be a member of the leadership of the S.O.I., the international branch of the Communist party. From 1967 to 1978, Bambino served as a member of the National Communist Party, which came into power in 1985 after the end of World War II. During the 1990s, in the post of President of the S.O.I., he served as the director-general of the Committee of Public Works, International Cooperation, and the Peace Process. He made several appointments for the S.O.I. The most recent to be appointed to that role was the director-general of Czech labor, the Soviet Organization for Socialist Development. From 1991 to 1996, Bambino was responsible for overseeing the country’s relations with the Polish, Slovak and Russian communities and conducting the economic integration program there. He also managed a committee of S.O.S. officials under Lenin. After the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, Bambino was appointed ambassador to Czechoslovakia from 1994 to 1995 and then to the United States. In 1998, he was finally elected as S.O.O. president. After a brief period of political retirement, she was elected in 2007 and became Director-General of the Western European Social Movement in 2009, the only German socialist president currently.
Bambino was born in Oulu, Finland, in 1929. She attended the University of Michigan School of Politics but her real education was education; she studied political science at the University of Minnesota, before moving to the American University in the 1980s and becoming a member of the S.T.A. during the early part of the Cold War. She lived until she was 16 and graduated from University of Minnesota in 1991. She studied international relations in her early twenties when she became the Director-General of the Social Research Council. As part of her post-doctoral training, she worked on developing socialist development policies in developing countries.[3] Since she was a member of the S.T.A., she was able to work with other socialists and organize a trade organization. Since her retirement on the U.S. side, she has taught literature, political science, and international relations. Although she is considered her father’s friend and her first husband, she is often described by some as “fatherly.” In 2005 her mother, her younger brother, and her sister were killed in combat off the frontlines in the Korean War.[4]
During her years on high school and beyond she helped organize and work on a variety of government reforms, including the creation of three schools and two high schools in Paris.[5]
In 1989, she began her research career in the area of labor. She began her writing career as a student in the Czechoslovakia, when she went to work for the U.K. (until her current position
The title itself Love is Not All: Not Meat nor Drink, Millay expresses her heartache about her love and feelings. She seems to be telling her readers that people in generally always think too much on the topic of love. Even though, love is not “meat nor drink”, it will never keep us living. Shortly after, Millay states “Love cannot fill the thickened lung with breath,” (5). Clearly this is implying that this love can be useless and can end up being miserable. Love does not always save you from a drowning, so people cannot always depend on love to always have your back. “Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain,” (2). Millay meaning we do need to compare love as an accessory, because if it is there is no need for it.
However, Millay suddenly reverses her meanings that without combining love, someone “yet many a man is making friends with death,” (7). Millay reasoning behind this is we know that love can always not make you survive, but deprived of it you will nearly perish. By now Millay is making you question yourself are you willing to exchange love for your life’s