“Lonely Hearts,” by Wendy Cope is a very good example of a villanelle. I found it interesting how Cope used the word “simple” in the very first line because the remainder of the poem is far from simple. Each stanza is a different speaker searching for their perfect match, and each speaker has a very detailed description of what they want. Another way to view the poem is that there is only one speaker. Possibly a woman is desperate and looking for a partner and she will become any type of person to meet the different descriptions. The only time readers see the speaker relating to a stanza is in the line “Successful, straight and solvent? I am too,” although she still reads on, trying to find a partner. This shows readers her level of desperateness.
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