"can't sleep, can't weep, can't hope"- strikes a chord- moves from being fantastical to real emotions and humanizes whatever entity you're describing.
acually haven't read (or come across) too many fantasy novels with poems embedded - songs yes, but poems no. sounds like it could be something really interesting to learn into. A nice recombination of the Tolkien formula
They exist, but more often in older fantasy (though that might be a selection bias from my reading habits.) Mostly I see them at the start of chapters, or during some sort of ominous prophecy scene or something. But yeah, it is something I'd like to experiment with more, for sure.
It's good. It's like TS Eliot writing about Neanderthals (in a good way of course...)
Thank you so much!
Fantastic. Dreamlike but haunting and really beautiful.
Thank you!
"can't sleep, can't weep, can't hope"- strikes a chord- moves from being fantastical to real emotions and humanizes whatever entity you're describing.
acually haven't read (or come across) too many fantasy novels with poems embedded - songs yes, but poems no. sounds like it could be something really interesting to learn into. A nice recombination of the Tolkien formula
They exist, but more often in older fantasy (though that might be a selection bias from my reading habits.) Mostly I see them at the start of chapters, or during some sort of ominous prophecy scene or something. But yeah, it is something I'd like to experiment with more, for sure.