Blood and Bone - DivX Version (Normal Quality), iPod/iPhone Version
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IMDB rating: 6.40 Plot: In Los Angeles, an ex-con (White) takes the underground fighting world by storm in his quest to fulfill a promise to a dead friend. |
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Actors: White Michael Jai,Sands Julian,Walker Eamonn,Basco Dante,Sapp Bob,Williams Dick Anthony,Ferguson Kevin ‘Kimbo Slice’,Yuan Ron,Aldridge David,Alexander Robbie,Anthony Melvin,Arrias Daniel,Baker Sala,Action,Drama,Action,Drama,
Explain this poem pleeaaasssse?
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.
Can you please tell me the theme of the poem and maybe give a brief explanation of the theme or discuss the theme 
the poem is by Edna St. Vincent Millay,
thank u for your help everyone
im also looking for a little detail on the theme of the poem "i dreamed a dream" as i hav to write an essay on it, any help wud be much appreciated
Love isn’t any of those things. Kind of like saying its not as simple as eating or drinking, and its not magic. This sounds like the person is broken hearted and talking neggatively about love. But love is so much more then that, I dont like what s/he said what love is not but did not tell us what love is, kind of leaves you hanging.
Niya | Nov 16, 2009
Love isn’t everything.
It doesn’t feed your hunger or quench your thirst
It doesn’t provide shelter from the rain
It’s not a life preserver if you are drowning.
It’s not oxygen.
It’s not your kidneys.
It’s not a cast.
Yet, people kill themselves because they can’t find love.
Maybe they kill themselves because they are very sad or need sexual release.
Or because they really want to have children.
I would give up love for world peace.
Or trade the memory of my love for one of the things listed above.
Maybe.
But I don’t think so…I think I’d rather have love.
Your welcome.
Nate | Nov 16, 2009
the couplet dosent rhyme.
Melissa | Nov 16, 2009
i think it talks about wanting love to heal and how some people hold on to love as if it where some sort of solution for pain.and how if he had the answer for why this is he would use to feel better himself but he doesnt believe in love being hope he believes that love is for fools.he wishes he could believe in it to have some sort of peace about his pain. i think thats what it says
Mayela | Nov 16, 2009
The theme of the poem is very clearly love. In the beginning it is listing all the things that love can’t do, but then says that people die from lack of it. Then at the end, the writer admits that he might be tempted to exchange "love" for peace in a "difficult hour" of "pain," or trade a loving memory for nourishment. Then he says even though he might be tempted, he doesn’t think that he would exchange love for anything. Love is essential to life, a life without love would have no passion, no warmth, no excitement. I could go on forever….
P.S. Its a lovely poem, by the way. Who is it by?
Brittany | Nov 16, 2009
That poem is a love sonnet by Edna St. Vincent Millay. The poem starts out by talking about some of the things that love can’t do for a person. Love can’t nourish us like food and drink. It can’t refresh us like sleep. It can’t shelter us like a roof over our heads. It can’t save our lives the way a floating piece of wood can save someone from drowning after a shipwreck. It can’t cure sickness or mend a broken bone. Then the poem shifts gears to say that even though love can’t do all those things, it still feels essential. It still feels like something we can’t live without, or like something we don’t want to live without. The last few lines of the poem say, "If I were sick and desperate and in horrible pain, I might be willing to trade your love for some medicine that would relieve my pain. If I were starving to death, I might be willing to trade your love for something to eat. But right now, your love feels so important to me that I don’t think I’d make those trades."
classmate | Nov 16, 2009
The theme is, love may not conquer all, but it is worth it all!
He is saying that love may not be able to do all of these things like sustain you like meat and drink, it wont provide a roof over your head, or even save you from sinking. It cant even go as far to give you breath or fix a broken bone but man would meet his death for the lack of it.
The person has put together a checklist, per se, of all the things that love can’t do, cant help you body. It can’t save your life and even in the end, after it has pinned you down and taken your peace and you feel driven to trade your love for peace and food, you would not sell your love for peace or even a memory.
Sylvia L | Nov 16, 2009
This is a feminist poem.
I think the speaker is saying that although love might not be everything, it’s the lack of love that some men get depressed for not having and commit suicide. So, as a woman, she feels that because she has the power to give love to a man, she can flirt with the idea of whether she would give herself to a man for who has her pinned down and raping her so the rapist would set her free, or sell her body to a man in order to buy food to survive. And whimsically she says she wouldn’t give into bargaining her body with a man for any reason, even if it would save her life.
oneyeno | Nov 17, 2009
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