Beyond becoming and perishing: Nature and spirit in Theodore Roethke's "North American Sequence"

Naturally my novel is in the first person. I have tried to quality to it that does perhaps become monotonous. I have tried to alleviate this by breaking my paragraphs with the voices of people outside the voice of the first person. They are not really outsiders in a true sense because it is I who have them come in when I want them. But they are saying pretty much what they actually said. Naturally the selection worked by my mind also chooses what I remember, when to remember what, when to put what side by side with what. The artifice of this kind of 'truthful' writing is the reason I insist this is a novel, a piece of fiction.