Thursday, October 7, 2010

Almost like reading something else

In the poem "Lonely Hearts", the poem is in first person so I instantly begin to think that the speaker is solely one person. I think that the speaker is just putting out all these descriptions about themself write them as if they appear in the "personals" section of a newsapaper. But then I begin to look at the form and pattern of the poem and realize that this is not the case. Each stanza is indeed in first person, but they are all about different descriptions of different people. They are not just based around one person. Also, since these descriptions seperate people are putting out have their own stanza, I then begin to realize that I am almost reading just directly out of the "personals" section from a newspaper. However, the last line of each stanza bring about the central idea of an unrealistic expectation. Each stanza either ends with asking if they live in London or if they can make their wish come true. So the person reading these little personals is the one having the unrealistic expectations.

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