Lonely Heart

Lonely patrol wagon by Wendy head is a account on the dis get in touchedness and closing off of modern-day metropolis living. By viewing the reader five contrasting people every(prenominal) searching for revere, all in the selfsame(prenominal) area of North London, all of whom necessitate different provided very basic needs in a cognise interest, Cope is highlighting the fact that current societal means of contact ones mate have changed. In addition the affair of the villanelle style of closed form poetry gives this the presentation of a Greek let turn up.Lonely Hears is a modern poem which with its individual storytellers for for each one verse, followed by a final chorus, which appears to be spoken by all of the vote counters, gives the presentation of a Greek chorus (Campbell 66). This pattern adds to the bareness of each speaker, almost as if they step out of the darkness, state their plea and retire to the shadows. By utilizing this style of narration Cope is highlighting the disconnect and seclusion of these urban dwellers, all of who reside in a relatively small area of a large city but are unable to meet people without placing a ad hominem ad.Using the closed form rapid tone and rhythm Cope is pursual the path of m whatsoever English poets who use this style of poetry to spot serious stories as well as comic ones. Cope focuses on loneliness and the search for revel in several of her poems Lonely hearts and Bloody Men focus on the search for and the difficulty of conclusion love and Rondeau Redouble which tells of what happens when one the narrator meets the wrong man.But give care so m any English poets Cope shows that she understands the darker side of love and loneliness in Spared a poem about 9/11. Loneliness and isolation in Metropolitan areas is non a new problem, indeed loneliness anyw present is itself not a modern problem but with the emergence worlds of brotherly media and internet living, people are connecting le ss one on one.In a research study commissioned by the BBC in 2008, 30% of Londoners classified themselves as creation lonely, in contrast to the more awkward Northern Ireland where only 21% reported feeling lonely. Researchers also place large numbers of people living only if, unmarried people, recently move people and people privately renting accommodation, all of which they felt contributed to the social isolation and loneliness respondents reported(Dorling, Vickers, and Thomas 2008).Studying Copes poem it is unvarnished there are cultural differences between the narrators a Jewish champion mother, a gay vegetarian, and a biker, Cultural differences also contribute to privileged city isolation and loneliness, be they religious, sexual orientation, lifestyle or ethnic. In a 2011 by the Vancouver Foundation, the highest ranked social issues among 275 charitable foundations and 100 conjunction leaders, of a widely diverse selection of communities and cultures, was social is olation and disconnectedness.Repeating the study in 2012, but instead of polling institutions individuals where polled and again as in the UK study, 30% of respondents reported loneliness or difficulty making friends beyond the ostensible hello (Takeuchi 2012). Two cities 4700 miles apart highlighted commonalities among lonely individuals people who had recently travel to the city, who lived alone and who rented their accommodation privately.But in both cities this group of people, while having fewer friends would see them more frequently and be more likely to use social spaces and social media to spend time with them. Social media such as Facebook and Twitter has puzzle a common way for people to connect with friends and family an often person have hundreds of friends on Facebook with people reconnecting with lost loves and finding new ones but is this modern version of a community or is it just another form of social isolation?Academic arguments have been made for both sides o f the story, with social networks being blamed for increasing disconnectedness and on the other side of the coin social networks are being credited with leading to more diverse and wider groups of friends (Hampton , Goulet , and et al). Social media has also become a common way for people not only looking for friends but love as well. Looking for love in the xx First century has progressed from the simple newspaper ad lonely hearts as found in Wendy Copes poem, but is it any more sophisticated? come is soundless love, people are still reaching out to find a person with whom they have something in common and loneliness is still unchanged everyplace the centuries. Love, attractiveness and loneliness and all three combined have often been the focus of poets over the years from the short and pointed work of Frances Cornford To a Fat Lady Seen From the demand who the narrator deems as unlovable based solely on her show O why do you walk through the fields in gloves Missing so much and so much?O toothsome white woman whom nobody loves, (Cornford 34) to William Butler Yeats Loves Loneliness which deals with the fact that love does not guarantee an end to isolation and loneliness (Yeats). In the guileless poem of Edgar Allen Poe The Raven, Poe deals with the loneliness of having love and lost, the sense of desperation and a slow decline into what appears to be madness on the part of the narrator gives this poem a dark and gothic feel, combined with the appearance of the raven.The vestigial theme of this poem is one of undying devotedness, even though the narrator is alone, he has lost his beloved Lenore, he believes the Raven impart cave in his life as other friends have flown before(Poe), he will not give up the memories of Lenore and clings to the hope that he will be reunited with her in heaven, leading the reader to believe that Lenore is dead.The classic English poet W H Auden also deals with the loss of love and the loneliness of bereavement in one o f his most famous poems Funeral Blues in which a rooter demands Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone, insisting that the world stop and stand for a indorsement to recognize what is occurring, what a great loss she has suffered, He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song I thought that love would blend forever I was wrong.To have loved so profoundlyly and to be bereaved leaves the narrator with a sense of loneliness so deep it is apparent that nothing will ever be the same again The stars are not wanted now put out every one For nothing now can ever come to any well-behaved. (Auden) These two poems bring us to the age old question is it wear to have loved and lost or never to have loved at all? In the case of The Raven the narrators lost love drove him into despair and insanity and in the case of Funeral Blues the expiry of her loved one meant li fe could never be good or happy again.So in the case of Wendy Copes Lonely paddy wagon what would happen if they found their loves? Wendy Cope addresses loneliness in many of her poems but in Rondeau Redouble she tells us of what happens when the unwitting heroine continues in her sleeveless search for love despite meeting a variety of wildly unsuitable men There are so many kinds of cruddy men -One cant avoid them all.She often said Shed never make the same misinterpretation again She always made a new mistake instead (Cope) Instead of a litany of lonely hearts searching for love, here the reader is witness to a parade of depressingly awful men, each with their own foibles and idiosyncrasies, making it seem as if being single and alone is in fact preferable. Perhaps in the end the Lonely Hearts should take some advice from modern American poet Lloyd C Taylor who in tutelage with the changing world of literature and the growing world of social media is in the main a web publis hed poet.One of his better known poems Looking for Love asks the question of all people looking for that elusive meliorate relationship, So, youre looking for real love and companionship Youre disappointed no one has taken your hand. and when it becomes apparent to Lonely Hearts worldwide that the perfect mate is not out there, that that one ideal relationship does not exist Taylor has the perfect suggestion for finding that undying love and devotion for which they search, an answer which will end thoughts of loneliness Stop going oscillation and round on your merry-go-round, My advice, friend, go out and get a good dog (Taylor).