Notes: The way in which the poet describes silence as a "notation." This poet describes it as a "sound" although it is not. Gives the impression that silence is "loud" but appreciated.
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Notes: The way in which the poet describes silence as a "notation." This poet describes it as a "sound" although it is not. Gives the impression that silence is "loud" but appreciated.
I think you are the right track here. But that silence can be loud isn't really a new argument. I think Hirshfield's question, "What did I know at the end of the poem that I didn't know before?" could be helpful in unraveling the rhetoric of this poem more.