Ruptured Poems

The Ruptured Poems are a set of poems found within the Ruptured Towers that serve as introductions to the dungeons, their themes and atmospheres. Each poem was carefully chosen to reflect the dungeon in which they are found. Certain dungeons have two poems.
Poem 	Author 	Location
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening 	Robert Frost 	Doubt
Prospice 	Robert Browning 	Fear
Stolen Waters 	Lewis Carroll 	Anguish
O Captain! My Captain! 	Walt Whitman 	Loss
The Haunted Palace 	Edgar Allan Poe 	Misery
Invictus 	William Ernest Henley	Grief
There Will Come Soft Rains 	Sara Teasdale 	Guilt
Amaranth 	Tuomas Holopainen* 	Rage
You'll Never Walk Alone 	Oscar Hammerstein II*	Crisis
 	 	
Dream Within a Dream 	Edgar Allan Poe 	Misery
Ozymandias 	Percy Bysshe Shelley 	Misery
Con Te Partirò 	Lucio Quarantotto* 	Grief
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night	Dylan Thomas 	Midna's Tomb
Hurt 	Trent Reznor* 	Hilda's Tomb
How Glory Goes 	Adam Guettel* 	Hilda's Tomb
Lascia ch'io pianga 	George Frideric Handel
Giacomo Rossi	Hilda's Tomb
*Listed poem is a song and the author of its lyrics is credited
== Background and Inspiration ==
During development of 6.0, JKalenad intended for nearly every Ruptured Poem to be one by Lewis Carroll. The progression of poems would have been "Solitude," "Faces in the Fire," "Stolen Waters," "Dreamland," "After Three Days," and "Three Sunsets." There Will Come Soft Rains had always been planned for Guilt. JKalenad changed his choice of every poem but "Stolen Waters" in favor of poems by other authors. 
Version 6.5 brought several new Ruptured Towers and with them came new poems: Amaranth, You'll Never Walk Alone, and Lascia ch'io pianga, included in Rage, Crisis, and Hilda's Tomb, respectively. Lascia ch'io pianga was included in early development stages of 6.5 but was removed. JKalenad later returned it to Hilda's Tomb. 
== See Also ==
Ruptured Towers
Hero's Laments
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