| I. This paper is divided into three parts. The first is a critical analysis of the state of poetry today. The second part consists of original poems and prose written over the course of several years. The third part consists of a discussion of poets whose works have influenced me as a writer.; II. This paper proposes an extension of an already existing theory, that of historiographic metafiction. I propose that Graham Swift's text Ever After falls into this category, but that Swift's use of psychological dialogue calls for an expansion of the term because Swift's two narrators provide a vehicle for the questioning of identity in ways that historigraphic metafiction does not. |
