C. Emerson's poem has unanswered questions,
making it like a speech. Whitman's poem repeats
ideas for emphasis, making it monotonous.
Answer:
I <u>ate</u> fruits
My teacher <u>taught</u> well
The boys <u>wrote</u> nicely
In spring of 1846, Edgar Allan Poe (1809849) moved from New York City to his country cottage in Fordham where he wrote "The Philosophy of Composition," an essay that promises to recount the method he used to write his famous poem "The Raven" (1845). In the essay Poe challenges those who suggest that writing is a mysterious process prompted solely by the imagination. Although the it offers a number of precepts for good writing, at the end of the essay, Poe undercuts his step-by-step instructions by insisting that all writing should have an "under-current" of meaning. Because he never demonstrates how to create that "under-current," Poe's essay never completely reveals the process that makes his work so powerful.
The clearest example of metafiction is the story. A story with footnotes that comment on the author's process.
Many resources can be employed to make use of metafiction (a narrative technique in which the author constantly reminds the reader that he or she is reading a fictional work), and some of them include:
- Telling a story within a story
- Telling a story about a third person who's reading or writing a book
- And of course, telling a story and making use of footnotes to comment on it
In this way the reader is engaged and becomes a participant in the story, forcing himself to think about the nature of the narration and how much credibility exists in the stories he/she reads.
