Silence (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
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The Poem
The eighteen free-verse lines of Robert Bly’s “Silence” serve as an introduction to his beginning as a poet actively attempting to explain the symbiotic relationship between humans and nature, of which he became vividly aware during his youth in rural Minnesota. Bly was also intrigued by nature as the source of poetry. In “Silence,” eventually collected in his first gathering of poems, Silence in the Snowy Fields, Bly demonstrates his movement toward a canon of poetry focusing upon deeply hidden images that must be dredged up by the poet from what...
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