i wanna be yours - John Cooper Clarke

personal context

punk poet

known for his spoken word poems

title

lowercase stylising - lack of consideration for rules

informal - wanna

possesive pronouns

‘let me be your vacuum cleaner’

establishes the desire and hypotheticals

anaphora - emphasises urgency

‘breathing in your dust’

grotesque imagery - powerful commitment

‘you call the shots’

makes it clear that the lover is in charge

‘i wanna be yours’

repeated throughout - epiphora

drops all cryptic methaphors - clear and desperate

‘let me be your teddy bear’

connotations of youthful affecttion

wants to be physicllyclose

‘i dont care’

abrupt change in rhythm - diregard for rules - draws attention to the speakers only desire

‘electric meter … electric heater’

social realism - heat and sparks convey desire

‘youll get cold without’

cold - connotes loneliness

wants to be the one their subject needs the most

deep as the deep atlantic ocean

repetition - shouldnt underestimate his love - ‘ee’ mirrors never ending love’

atlantic ocean - suddennly broaden imagery - should be taken seriously

‘deep deep deep deep de deep deep’

incoherent and nonsensical

driven insane by his desire

structure

bookended structure

repetitive

stanzas

3 long stanzas - consistent

rhyme scheme

ababccdd