The option is D. Love isn’t as necessary as and shelter is, but love is very important
If we analyze some of the lines of the poem.
..”<em>Love is not all: it is not meat or drink….
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The author clearly states that love is not necessary to survive or to live.
When the author writes:
”<em> love cannot fill the thickened lung with breath, not clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone yet many a men are making friends with death”</em>
again is saying that love is not necessary to live, however, it is important to the way we live or relate with each other. It is clearly explained that a person can easily live without love. Love is always as an option, a tool, not a vital element in a person's life.