Analysis Of Because She Would Ask Me Why I Loved Her By Christopher Brennan Speech

The poem I have chosen as “the best poem in the world” is Because She Would Ask Me Why I Loved Her by Christopher Brennan, because it has a meaningful story, which is communicated with many sound and poetic devices. Some of these devices are repetition, personification, imagery, and metaphor, but many more are included as well. This poem is made up of 8 couplets, which create four stanzas that tell a story of a man explaining to his significant other why he loves her. He says that there are no words to describe why he loves her, and that trying to describe his love will ruin the feeling. He concludes the poem by telling her that he loves her because she gives him a reason to live. All of the poetic devices used by the author in this poem create

All of them have an effect on how the reader understands the meaning of the poem, and how well the poem’s message comes across. Repetition is used in the second and fourth line of Because She Would Ask Me Why I Loved Her, to draw the reader’s attention to those words repeated, and make them value the meaning of the lines that contain that repetition more. The couplet in lines 1-2 says, “If questioning would make us wise /No eyes would ever gaze in eyes”. The repetition is of the word “eyes” and it draws attention to the line; which means if they questioned why they loved each other, they would never look at each other the same way (they would no longer be together). This is a very important message that is carried throughout the poem, which is why the use of repetition is so important. Personification is used in the last line of the first stanza, where it describes kissing as two mouths “wandering”: “No mouths would wander each to each.” This connection between a human action and lips, which cannot actually wander, is a way for the author to describe kissing in a more descriptive way that provides interest and depth to the poem. Assonance is also used to alter the flow of a line, like it does in the first line of the concluding stanza: “Then seek not, sweet, the "If" and "Why"’’. “Seek” and “sweet” both contain the “ee” sound, as well as alliteration, to change how the line flows, and get the reader to read that line in a certain way. Having the lines in a poem flow easily makes it cohesive and complete. Lastly, alliteration is used in this poem to emphasize those words and the meaning of the line they belong to: “For I must love because I live”. That third line in the last stanza has the repeated “L” sound at the beginning of the two most important words in that line, which