Wendy Cope Poems

Key points about Cope's poems:

Being Boring:

Rhyme scheme seems to be as dull as her life is, but when there is a slight change, it may imply that there is something more there.
In this poem, something is always happening; its never just nothing.
The amount of times she talks about being boring makes you think she's just trying to convince herself.
Trying so hard to tell us that she's boring = reverse phsycology = we think there is something more.
Last verse makes you think that she's too afraid to take risks, which makes you think that something has happened in the past.

Engineers' Corner:

Poem filled with irony, eg. 'so many poets end up rich'
She swaps the lives of poets and engineers around, so she's trying to get across the point that the benifits of being an engineer should match the benifits of being a poet.
She is acting as though poets have a great life; this is ironic because they all usually stuggle a lot to get recognition.
She puts across false sympathy towards the lives of engineers to make poets' lives sound a lot better than they actually are.
Her whole poem implies that the lives of poets are awful and how much they sturggle to get by.

Strugnell's Sonnets (iv & vii):

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