"Lonely Hearts" Wendy Cope

"Lonely Hearts" is a variety of different newspaper singles advertisements. I found it interesting that in the second stanza it is advertising a gay person, the third stanza is about a bisexual person, and the fourth is about a straight stanza. One is a gay vegetarian who is into music and Shakespeare, another is looking for a bisexual woman who is young and arty, and then there is a straight, successful solvent looking for an attractive Jewish woman with a son. I guess she was just trying to cover all sexualities. This poem is in the form of a villanelle, because it is an easy way to display the separate ads. Every different person has the same desire to "make my simple wish come true." The simple wish is to find companionship that meets their different interests. I wondered why she used North London for the place that every person lives, so I looked her up on wikipedia, and it said that she is from Kent, a county in England.