Wendy Cope
If you didn't realize, back in the mid 1900s, the internet wasn't invented. For this reason, poets had to take all their single friends' likes and dislikes and put them in poems, hoping the readers would ask out the poet's friends. If this is the correct interpretation of the poem, then HOLY GORSH MICKEY!!!
More than likely, the poem is to sympathize with the average person who is down on their luck in the love department. There are plenty of simple, ordinary people who just want someone special in their lives, and these simple messages symbolize all these different romantics. Every message is just 3 lines long, yet every message corresponds to a significantly different person. There is a "Gay vegetarian whose friends are few...[and a] Successful, straight, solvent...Jewish lady" (Cope 973). If these two people were in a story, they couldn't be more different, yet they represent the same type of person in this poem. Everyone is looking for love, and they have put their faith into writing messages and hoping someone special will find it. There are always lonely hearts, but as long as the hearts stay open someone will take away the lonely and make it lovely.
EDIT: I think I should forever be less manly for making this blog. I need to remedy this...I'm now a man.
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