The Role Of The Narrator In Wendy Cope's Lonely Hearts

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In Wendy Cope’s poem, “Lonely Hearts”, the narrator is in search for love. The narrator gives a description in each stanza of people she would not mind finding love in. Abstract diction is used in this poem a lot because the narrator is looking for love. Love is not an object; however, it is an abstract idea. The narrator has a wish that they can find love soon. The narrator says, “Can someone make my simple wish come true?” (398). The use of the word “simple” is rather a strange choice of wording being that finding love is not normally described as simple. The narrator then illustrates the type of people she would not mind falling in love with. The descriptions of people are quite broad and show the narrator does not have much of a type.

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