In her villanelle, Lonely Hearts, Wendy Cope uses attributes and styles from villanelles to portray the speakers search for companionship. Each stanza uses repetition to convey a tone of desperation, the speaker uses descriptions to show his urgency and self-consciousness, and the last quatrain closes the poem and concludes how all the people come together in search of love.
The author uses repetition to convey the meaning of the villanelle. In each stanza the lines “Can someone make my simple wish come true?” and “Do you live in North London? Is it you” (Cope, 18-19) are repeated alternately. These lines portray a tone of desperation in each person’s ad. In the Villanelle, these lines help the reader understand how lonely the people are. They also help emphasize the poem’s main …show more content…
The descriptions of each person are unique in content, but they are all straightforward; in the fourth tercet the speaker says he is a non-smoker, slim and under twenty-one, in these descriptions the speaker portray what he thinks are good qualities, but also that he is tired of waiting for the right companion. In the third tercet, “Sucessful, straight, and solvent? I am too –“ “Atrractive Jewish lady with a son” (Cope, 10-11). This portrays a more desperate tone to the speaker, because he has no limitations on what he wants in a lover. Each ad portrays a person who is self conscious and desperate to find any companion. In the final stanza of the villanelle, the author uses a quatrain to conclude the main ideas of the poem. In the last stanza, both of the repeated lines are used to convey the desperation of the poem as a whole. The line “Please write (with photo) to Box 152” (Cope, 16), concludes the ads and directs possible suitors to the right place to find a companion. The last stanza serves as a closing and conveys the overall meaning of the
The author uses repetition to convey the meaning of the villanelle. In each stanza the lines “Can someone make my simple wish come true?” and “Do you live in North London? Is it you” (Cope, 18-19) are repeated alternately. These lines portray a tone of desperation in each person’s ad. In the Villanelle, these lines help the reader understand how lonely the people are. They also help emphasize the poem’s main …show more content…
The descriptions of each person are unique in content, but they are all straightforward; in the fourth tercet the speaker says he is a non-smoker, slim and under twenty-one, in these descriptions the speaker portray what he thinks are good qualities, but also that he is tired of waiting for the right companion. In the third tercet, “Sucessful, straight, and solvent? I am too –“ “Atrractive Jewish lady with a son” (Cope, 10-11). This portrays a more desperate tone to the speaker, because he has no limitations on what he wants in a lover. Each ad portrays a person who is self conscious and desperate to find any companion. In the final stanza of the villanelle, the author uses a quatrain to conclude the main ideas of the poem. In the last stanza, both of the repeated lines are used to convey the desperation of the poem as a whole. The line “Please write (with photo) to Box 152” (Cope, 16), concludes the ads and directs possible suitors to the right place to find a companion. The last stanza serves as a closing and conveys the overall meaning of the