Why I love you- Udiah (witness to Yah)

You give to me hope
And help me to cope
When life pulls me down
You bring me around

You teach me to care
And help me to share
You make me honest
With kindness the best

From you I learned love
With grace from above
It's for you I live
And I want to give

You are the reason
That fills each season
When I hear love I think of you
You are my world and best friend too

I love you because you are so kind, thoughtful and caring
I love you because you are so pleasant, lovely and sharing

You made me the man I am
Thank you

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
There is no information about this author, but it tells that the author was born in 1959 in the USA. Except for that, there are not many information about the poet yet. Maybe more details about this poet will come out in the later future. 


PERSONAL RESPONSE

I have nothing to say about this poem. This poem tells about love, but the thing is that this poem exactly matches my feeling. I’ll explain that in the text-to-self connection. The poem basically is saying how the person the man loved changed the man to become stronger than before. For a text-to-text connection, the poem has a lot of relating dialogues that happens throughout love story movies. For a text-to-self connection, the poem sounds like it’s exactly talking to me or it’s me talking to me in a mirror. The poem generally relates to how I feel toward a certain girl I like. Though I am not in a relationship with her, I have to say, she changed me to become a bit confident and stronger than the former me. One day, I would love to be in a relationship with her. For a text-to-world connection, many guys would feel the same toward their lover. Women have the power to change men to a different person (in a positive way). I really liked this poem because the poem was ‘speaking’ to the readers, and it is saying the truth in every single way. I have no other suggestions to put in this poem. This poem sounded perfect to me. Single or not, the poem has a similar advice of what it feels like to be in a relationship or planning to become a couple with the lover. Reading this poem give me goose bumps. It’s almost as if the poet was reading my mind and then he create a poem about this.

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TITLE
The title says it all. It represent about why the person loves this person, and it tells about how the person he/she loves changed the person into a stronger person. The title also tells you that this poem would be based on a description on why he/she loves her.

PARAPHRASING


You give to me hope
And help me to cope
When life pulls me further down
You bring me the other way around

You teach me to care
And help me to share
You make me become honest
With kindness makes the best

From you I learned love
With grace from above
It's for you I live
And I want to give 

You are the reason
That fills each season
When I hear love, I always think about you
You are my world and also my best friend too

I love you because you are so kind, thoughtful and caring
I love you because you are so pleasant, lovely and sharing

You made me the man I am today
 I thank you everyday

CONNOTATION
1. structure- 5 quatrain and couplet, rhyme scheme- a-a-b-c-d-d-e-e-f-f-f-f-g-g-h-h-i-i-j-k, end rhyme, punctuation- comma, period.
2. speaker- a man telling or writing a letter to a person that he loves and tells about how he changed a lot because of that person. Audience- the person the speaker is telling/writing to.
3. Imagery- sight (think about you, friend,lovely,teach), touch (bring me around), taste- none, hear (hear love), smell- none

ATTITUDE
sincere, bright, peaceful, joy, enchanting. The tone of this poem is very bright, for it does not tell about depressing moments, but about love and about how good it was. I never written a love poem, but I've read a lot of love poem, so this kind of poem is very familiar to me.

SHIFT
1st quatrain (line 1-4)- the speaker tells how the person he/she loves was able to save the speaker's life mentally
2nd quatrain (line 5-8)- the speaker is learning how to change from the former self from the lover
3rd quatrain (line 9-12)- the tone turns bright as the speaker tells about how amazingly the speaker's lover changed the former self of the speaker
4th quatrain (line 13-16)- the lover is the only person the speaker sees and thinks about 
(line 17-18) the speaker tells why he loves her
(line 19-20) says thank you to the lover for making the person the man is today

TITLE
The title shows a bigger meaning behind the words than before. For this poem matches my love for someone, putting more thought on the title was able to make me dig deeper into the true meaning of the title easier than trying to think again about the title of other poems.

THEME
1. Love is more than it seems
2. people can truly change from love
3. you can learn a lot just from love

REFERENCE
U.(2012). Why i love you. Retrieved from http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/why-i-love-you-45/