English is a silly language One may use the ineffable concept of love to describe even the simplest generic pleasures and say for example I loved that meal Similarly modern society has tainted the concept with the euphemism Making love which insinuates that the sexual act creates love The speaker in Andrew Marvells poem To His Coy Mistress likewise places an overzealous emphasis on intercourse Conversely speakers in the works of Edna St Vincent Millay balance the ideas much more fairly As an il