Lonely Hearts

The poem Lonely Hearts by Wendy Cope is structured in a way that uses alternating repetition every other line, and asks questions, imploring for a lover to fill each person's desires and expectations. "Do you live in North London...Is it You,"(Cope,973)? "Can someone make my simple wish come true,"(Cope,973)? Each stanza reveals the pleading, anxious, and begging tone of each person in their pursuit of love. All of the people writing each advertisement all have the commonality that they are impatient when it comes to love, find their wish plain and simple, and wonder if someone is out there to fulfill what they seek. The structure shows the similarities between each, and the day dreaming nature. The title of the poem describes each person as lonely which is proved in each's desperate attempt for searching for companionship. In one stanza in particular, the person acknowledges and admits their lack of companions: "..whose friends are few,"(Cope,973)." Overall, the entire poem made me feel sympathetic for all of the hopeful people who can't find who they are looking for.