Serious Concerns

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The first line is repeated in the fourth and seventh lines and the second line is also the last line. She is also the author of two books for children, Twiddling Your Thumbs (1988) and The River Girl (1991). From Nobel Laureates Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter to theatre greats Tom Stoppard and Alan Bennett to rising stars Polly Stenham and Florian Zeller, Faber Drama presents the very best theatre has to offer. According to multiple sources, Cope's favorite publication is Anecdotal Evidence and one of her favorite poems is Flowers from Serious Concerns, which is also one of her most famous. Wendy Cope’s first book of poems and parodies, Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis, went straight into the bestseller lists.

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The beauty of the poem is in its touching simplicity, and the faint hint of the absurd suggested by that huge orange. This is a seemingly simple poem in everyday colloquial language, but it explores some serious themes.S. Eliot’s landmark modernist poem The Waste Land in five humorous five-line poems, making the most of the delicious juxtaposition of the funny and irreverent limerick form and the serious post-war cri de coeur that is Eliot’s poem. Although many of Wendy Cope’s early poems focus on being unlucky in love and being single (as in ‘A Christmas Poem’ above), ‘After the Lunch’ beautifully captures the moment when you realise you may be falling in love with someone.

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The poem comprises seventeen lines of irregular length, with no rhyme scheme and frequent use of enjambment. Legacy’, ‘Names’, ‘For My Sister, Emigrating’ and ‘Leaving’, for example, consider the theme of leaving or being left with a subdued tone. a bit disappointed as i wanted to love this more but unfortunately up until section vi (where it really picks up in my opinion) only two poems stuck out - including "the orange" which i was already familiar (in love) with.All information has been reproduced here for educational and informational purposes to benefit site visitors, and is provided at no charge.

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Since then she has published two further books of poetry and has edited various anthologies of comic verse. A collection of poems featuring works by Cope such as "Bloody Men", "Men and their Boring Arguments" and "Two Cures for Love". Generally, each poem features a lighthearted delightful tone packed with punchy jokes and a dry compressed wit.

Cope’s rueful wisdom connects her to the tradition of Betjeman and Larkin, but she brings a fresh female perspective to bear on social and literary foibles.