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Love By Roy Croft

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“Love” by Roy Croft is a poem about how true love makes you feel and what exactly true love is. Throughout the poem the narrator experiences this unbelievable love with her best friend. With the author’s specific use of repetition, metaphors, and alliteration; the poem transpires into an amazing story of love.
Repition helps make an idea more clear. Croft’s use of repetition throughout the entirety of the poem helps to enforce the meaning of the poem: your true love is also your best friend. By repeating the words “I Love You” at the beginning of each stanza, Croft shows how the narrator’s love grows through the trials faced in the relationship. (1,5,10,13,25,34) While the narrator never comes out and says that the love is a romantic love, …show more content…

Sound reinforces the structures meaning. The alliteration in the poem addes to the loving feeling of the text. The author purposely stays away from harsh sounding words in order to further prove his point. Croft conveys alliteration in lines 14-15, "For putting your hand/ Into my heaped up heart"(14-15). In this quote the author seems to be portraying a man taking the narrarators heart and mending it. Once again the author expresses alliteration throughout the lines of 22-24 "All the beautiful belongings/ That no one else had looked/ Quite far enough to find" (22-24). This quote describes that no other person has tried so hard to figure her out. The beautiful belongings reference is alluding to those secrets that not even your best friends know. This person is digging so deep into your soul that he now carries every single "beautiful belonging" you carry. Alliteration can make a person keep wanting to read more about a work by its rythmic …show more content…

The author writes about the reason why the narrator loves this man: I love you because you Are are helping me to make Of the lumber of my life Not a tavern But a temple; (25-29)
The signifigance of these lines is so important. This part of stanza four is meaning that the man is helping the narrator build up her life into something better than what she had. Croft also uses metaphors in the following lines, "I love you/ For the part of me/ That you bring out;" (10-12). The author is trying to portray that this woman can be herself around her love. The love of her life brings out something so unique and powerful that no one else can. She feels happier and more herself when she 's around this man. Once again Croft explains why the narrator loves the love of her life: I love you, Not only for what You have made of yourself, But for you what You are making of me. (5-9)
These lines are being compared to the couple growing together. They are making eachother better people. The narrator is falling for the man because she feels as if he 's molding her into something amazing. Metaphors indirectly compare one thing to another to elucidate on a

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