If you're interested for your musical entertainment, these songs Classifieds by The Academy Is... and Single White Female by Chely Wright immediately came to my mind while I was reading this poem.
This poem doesn't really seem to have much depth. It obviously comes from the personals and/or dating ads in the newspaper. Personally, I think the personals section always sounds somewhat desperate. I guess I just don't understand why people advertise to try and find someone to date...? Maybe since I've never been presented with the situation. Which I'm hoping it never has to come down to that...
The first line of the poem is repeated in the second, fourth, and final stanza at the end "Can someone make my simple wish come true?" and the final line of the first stanza "Do you live in North London? Is it you?" is repeated at the end of the third, fifth, and final stanzas, suggesting that the settting is in North London. The villanelle is appropriate for this subject because the set up is similar to what the classified/personal ads seem to look like. I don't understand the whole gay vegetarian and bisexual woman bit though. Maybe I am having an analysis road block...but I don't see much in this poem.
This poem doesn't really seem to have much depth. It obviously comes from the personals and/or dating ads in the newspaper. Personally, I think the personals section always sounds somewhat desperate. I guess I just don't understand why people advertise to try and find someone to date...? Maybe since I've never been presented with the situation. Which I'm hoping it never has to come down to that...
The first line of the poem is repeated in the second, fourth, and final stanza at the end "Can someone make my simple wish come true?" and the final line of the first stanza "Do you live in North London? Is it you?" is repeated at the end of the third, fifth, and final stanzas, suggesting that the settting is in North London. The villanelle is appropriate for this subject because the set up is similar to what the classified/personal ads seem to look like. I don't understand the whole gay vegetarian and bisexual woman bit though. Maybe I am having an analysis road block...but I don't see much in this poem.
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