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Earnest, Earnest? (Paperback)
Poems
Imprint: University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pitt Poetry Series
Pages: 62
ISBN: 9780822966302
Published: 28th March 2021
Casemate UK Academic
Series: Pitt Poetry Series
Pages: 62
ISBN: 9780822966302
Published: 28th March 2021
Casemate UK Academic
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In Earnest, Earnest?, the speaker, Eleanor, writes postcards to her on-again-off-again lover, Earnest. The fact that her lover’s name is Earnest and that their relationship is fraught, raises questions of sincerity and irony, and whether both can be present at the same time. While Earnest can be read literally as Eleanor’s lover, he is best understood as another side of the poet’s self. The ambiguity at play in Earnest, Earnest? is embodied in the form of the “Earnest Postcards” that structure the book - these postcards are experimental in their use of images and formal in their dialogue with the sonnet. Thus, Earnest, Earnest? is a question of tone, address, and form.
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