The Language of Silence review
The Language of Silence is a poem that carries the reader
through a war-torn landscape. Using disturbing, dreamlike imagery built around
romantic language, it conflates escape, death, and silence with expression. The
poem is used as a means to express the trauma of the situation. In it, we are
shown a young boy who sees death as a form of escape, while, in contrast, the girls
are “begging” the earth to keep them alive. The imagery is strong, while also leaving
room for the reader to create their own world by maintaining a certain ambiguity.
The poem concludes with a statement about the deafening silence
that follows mass destruction. A new city is formed in the ruins of the old,
and in the same way, silence, rather than language, is the only means of
expressing this loss and devastation.
Lovely - but I want more!
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