Love is not all By Edna St. Vincent Millay Love is not – UNICAMP 2019 

Love is not all

(Disponível em https://www.poemhunter.com/. Acessado em 28/05/2018.)

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 need 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 may well be. I do not think I would.

De acordo com o poema,

(A) por falta de amor, somos derrotados pelas dificuldades da vida.

(B) há quem busque a companhia da morte por falta de amor.

(C) a rotina diária a que somos submetidos é capaz de pôr fim ao amor.

(D) é melhor trocar as incertezas do amor por paz de espírito.

Resposta:

Alternativa Correta: B) há quem busque a companhia da morte por falta de amor.

Encontra-se a alternativa correta nos seguintes versos do poema:

“Yet many a man is making friends with death Even as I speak, for lack or love alone”

* many a man = many men
* lack = falta