Lullabies

Hi, Assalamualaikum

"Strange how it mattered so much, 

when now it matters so little." - Lang Leav

Lullabies is the second poems related book; a sequel to a popular bestselling Love and Misadventure, written by an amazing writer; Lang Leav. Lang Leav continues to explore the intricacies of love and loss in this book. The major form of the book is non-fictional and the techniques used are both poetry and prose; a bit different from her first book, which; she only use poetry - as a medium to make her readers drunk deep with her words.

The theme is musical, it is divided into three parts which are; Duet, Interlude and Finale - with an Encore popular piece from the best selling Love and Misadventure. Same like the first book, an illustration accompanies the beginning of each new chapter. There are two kinds of poetry and prose in the book.

i) Lyrical : Intense, short, personal and passionate; usually to express deep feelings

I drew him in my world

I write him in my lines

I want to be his girl

He was never meant as mine.

I drew him in my world

He is always on my mind

I draw his every line

It hurts when he's unkind.

I drew him in my world

I draw him all the time

but I don't know where to draw the line

ii) Narrative prose : Telling stories in verse. It is short but deep.

If a boy ever says, you remind me of someone-don't ever fall in love with him. You will never be anything more than second best

The pattern, same like the first book, is a free verse which means that it does not have a regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables;- all the poetry in the book set in a free verse. Some of it did show how Lang Leav attempts to put her words to sounds alike and familiar; but most of it, none. When you read some of her poems deeply, you will know and feels instantly that her writing styles becoming more like a classic poetry style such as Emily Dickinson; but, with a modern tone.

There are times where she breaks from rhyming frustration over lost love in a poetry to being a storyteller ; breaking away from a traditional rules to weave tales of lover; which I pretty much sure that some of it- she experienced it herself while other just some good acts being in her head; her original imagination. This clearly shown in her final poem in Lullabies entitled The End.

The End

I don't know what to say, he said. "It's okay,"she replied. "I know what we are - and I know what we're not."

Personally, I think that sometimes Lang Leav seems evident to her reader that she is well aware of her own romantic tendencies and she did an amazing job in putting her feelings into words. This show that Lang Leav is a truly strong modern poet; aside from being truly herself, she has the ability to write about an array of romantic experiences that a variety of people can relate to.

There's a disclaimer in the beginning of the book that the poems and proses can be read in any order but there is a story Lullabies if we read it in order; from the beginning to the end. There is not much I can say about the book. The poems speak for themselves; it can make us appreciate our feelings more than we should.

Until then, xoxo !