I Wanna Be Yours Poem
'Both these poems are love poems with a twist.' Do you agree?
'i wanna be yours' by Cooper Clarke and 'Stop all the Clocks' by Auden are both unusual romantic poems. To judge whether they're both love poems, and if so, if they have a twist, we'd have to analyse classical love poetry. Cooper Clarke wrote 'i wanna be yours' in the 1980s for a 'punk' audience (being a self-proclaimed punk poet). The poem is intentionally mocking of the blossoming consumerist culture that valued possession over emotion. Similarly, the original version of Auden's 'Stop all the Clocks' was satirical, mocking the funeral of a politician, written for a play that Auden co-wrote with Christopher Isherwood. The better known 1938 version was edited and changed from the …show more content…
One of these techniques is the constant statements of his need to be essential daily items in her life, for example, his need to be her 'vacuum cleaner'. This is effective because it's very simplistic, and expresses that his love isn't complicated. The phrase 'i wanna be yours' is repeated at the end of the first two stanzas, almost as a conclusion to his points. A structural technique of Cooper Clarke's is his use of rhyming couplets: each couplet shows how pairs are an improvement on singularity. One possible interpretation of the use of everyday, consumerist products, such as a 'Ford Cortina' is the need to have what others have. Cooper Clarke is using humanity's primal need to fit in as a tool to advertise himself: if Cooper Clarke is comparable to these highly desirable (and mostly unnecessary) products, then he must also be highly desirable. This links in with context, as Cooper Clarke wrote this poem in the midst of his heroin addiction, and he most likely had as low a view of himself during that decade as he did of these products that he's mocking. However, no matter how mocking, 'i wanna be yours' does fit the definition of a love
'i wanna be yours' by Cooper Clarke and 'Stop all the Clocks' by Auden are both unusual romantic poems. To judge whether they're both love poems, and if so, if they have a twist, we'd have to analyse classical love poetry. Cooper Clarke wrote 'i wanna be yours' in the 1980s for a 'punk' audience (being a self-proclaimed punk poet). The poem is intentionally mocking of the blossoming consumerist culture that valued possession over emotion. Similarly, the original version of Auden's 'Stop all the Clocks' was satirical, mocking the funeral of a politician, written for a play that Auden co-wrote with Christopher Isherwood. The better known 1938 version was edited and changed from the …show more content…
One of these techniques is the constant statements of his need to be essential daily items in her life, for example, his need to be her 'vacuum cleaner'. This is effective because it's very simplistic, and expresses that his love isn't complicated. The phrase 'i wanna be yours' is repeated at the end of the first two stanzas, almost as a conclusion to his points. A structural technique of Cooper Clarke's is his use of rhyming couplets: each couplet shows how pairs are an improvement on singularity. One possible interpretation of the use of everyday, consumerist products, such as a 'Ford Cortina' is the need to have what others have. Cooper Clarke is using humanity's primal need to fit in as a tool to advertise himself: if Cooper Clarke is comparable to these highly desirable (and mostly unnecessary) products, then he must also be highly desirable. This links in with context, as Cooper Clarke wrote this poem in the midst of his heroin addiction, and he most likely had as low a view of himself during that decade as he did of these products that he's mocking. However, no matter how mocking, 'i wanna be yours' does fit the definition of a love