Say Over Again...

Most of us have felt that heart wrenching pain of a break up, or felt that pain of a doomed relationship. There is no other feeling like a broken heart. Elizabeth Browning's, "Say Over Again," was able to capture these feelings all over again. In this poem, she writes,

Say over again, and yet once over again,
That thou dost love me. Though the word repeated
Should seem 'a cuckoo song,' as thou dost treat it,
Remember, never to the hill or plain,
Valley and wood, without her cuckoo-strain
Comes the fresh Spring in all her green completed.
Belovèd, I, amid the darkness greeted
By a doubtful spirit-voice, in that doubt's pain,
Cry, 'Speak once more---thou lovest!' Who can fear
Too many stars, though each in heaven shall roll,
Too many flowers, though each shall crown the year?
Say thou dost love me, love me, love me---toll
The silver iterance!---only minding, Dear,
To love me also in silence with thy soul.

I think Browning is writing about a relationship at the end of its rope. I think she is holding on to something that she knows is done but doesn't want to admit it to herself. I don't think the speaker is asking for too much, you aren't asking too much when you love someone. I enjoyed this poem quite a bit because I think it is something we can all relate to in life.