Lonely Hearts

As I was looking at the poem "Lonely Hearts" by Wendy Cope, before even reading it I noticed some interesting things about the poem. The first thing I noticed was that there are a lot of questions in this poem. In every stanza there are at least two rhetorical questions being directed towards the reader of the poem. I also noticed a repetition to some of the particular questions that are asked in the poem. The question "Can someone make my simple wish come true?" (Cope, 1)  appears four times in the short six stanza poem. Along with "can someone make my wish come true?", "Is it you?" (Cope, 19) is used to conclude four of the six stanzas. So I began asking myself why so many questions? As I continued to read the poem, I realized that the poem was not only a poem given, but a poem looking for a response. In the final stanza of the poem, it talks about how he wants the reader to write back and see where the relationship will go. The questions make it so the poem has a sense of love as well as mystery.