Love Is Not All: It Is Not Meat nor Drink

In this poem, the speaker describes love mainly in terms of ways it cannot fulfill a person and of her own uncertainty about her ability to keep faith. In your opinion, is the result a weaker or stronger love poem than Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s romanticized “Sonnet 43”? Write a short essay in response to this question. Be sure to explain your reasoning and to cite evidence to support it.