: Re: Using poetry in novels a good option? I write fiction as well as poetry. And many a times I use poetry as a tool to bring out that acute feeling of pain or love (as required) in my explanations.

Poetry in a novel is dangerous because it backfires easily if it's bad, and (not to say anything at all about you) it's often bad. Or at least not good. Or just plain puzzling, like it's been put there just because it's Significant and the reader doesn't know why it matters that it's poetry. If the poem isn't good enough to stand on its own, the reader will be right to reject it. Jo Walton had a nice snark in the first post of her Rothfuss reread:

Apart from being that rare thing in fantasy, actually good poetry...

You have to be careful not to end up as one of her many targets.

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