[The witch] would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitorโs stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backwards.
C. S. LewisPoetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion; only by means of that something more does it communicate the emotion at all.
C. S. Lewis