Please give me an analysis of the poem "Aids" by May Sarton.critical analysis and explanations

May Sarton's poem about Aids addresses the limitations
that love has in a person's life.  When one grows up one assumes that love can conquer
everything life throws one's way.  However, when a person has AIDS the doors to love are
often closed as people turn away from the disease in fear. 

May uses a lot of imagery in her poem to help one
visualize the experience.  She also repeats words in order to emphasize
meaning.

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"Intention/ Here can neither move nor change/The
raw truth" (lines 4-6).

In
order to be able to be there for the person one must accept the disease and what comes
with it.

"a
new dimension/ Of love, a more demanding range/ Where despair and hope must intertwine"
(lines 2-3)

These lines
express the new level love must arrive at in order to help the
person.

"Death
is on the line" (line 6)

The
previous line throws itself at the reader so the reader will see the risk and what is at
stake.

"Our
world has never been more stark/ Or more in peril. It is very lonely now in the dark/
Lonely and sterile" (lines
11-14)

The author is trying
to convey that there is a need for hope in the middle of the tragedy.   The author uses
the word lonely repeatedly to place emphasis on the
feeling.

Yet, her intent in the end is to convey the sense
of hope that still exists.