Lonely Hearts

The first thing I thought of after reading this poem was EHarmony. It is satirizing the people who advertise themselves and search for love. All of these people are looking for the same thing, love, but they are so different. The author describes the most random people. They seem to be outcasts of society. They all have extremely specific expectations. The repeated lines in the poem are "do you linve in North London? Is it you?" and "can someone make my simple wish come true?" This last line is very ironic. The word simple is ironic because they dont have simple requests at all they are very specific. Also those two repeated phrases contribute to the layout of the poem as a villanelle.