I Wanna Be Yours.

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The poem I wanna be yours is based on true love, and throughout the poem the man tells the woman all sorts of things to try and persuade her to accept him-the promises he makes are in the forms of images he thinks the girl might need or want. For e.g. a vacuum cleaner, hair setting lotion, a ford cortina, a raincoat etc.

He uses the images above because females mostly do house work so they need a vacuum cleaner, females like their hair to look nice so they use setting lotion, he offers her a ford cortina and she probably wants/needs a car and he offers to be her rain coat by being her rain coat she is going to be protected by him.

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So as you can see he offers to be many things but he doesn’t ask for anything in return-this suggests real love because he isn’t giving to get-he doesn’t demand anything from her, he just asks for her to return his love-he even says in line 7 “you call the shots” even after all his offers there is no response from the female this poem is aimed at. I think the male in this poem is in another relationship because he refers to another female in the poem “I don’t wanna be hers” he then follows that by saying “I ...

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