Silence is a language itself. My statement is itself a contradiction however; I have reasoning for my statement which is that silence is lava that boils within the unconscious of a silent person, it is how a person internalizes his thoughts, petrified to divulge them out in open. He neither speaks nor writes about it, scared of what other people might say or think about him/her. He/she considers himself either too inferior or too superior to share his opinions. Thus, the silence becomes a language of expressions, a language that conceals the emotions, boiling and gurgling as lava.
Yet there is poetry, a language of the silence, it demonstrates the emotions, feelings, imaginations and ideas already being thought or felt. Such is the case of the black lesbian woman poet, who has learnt her way to let her emotions out in open, yet in my perspective, she proclaims that poetry is not a luxury, but merely stanzas and lines describing feelings. However, I am unable to understand what she meant by stating the connection of a woman’s feeling with the non-European consciousness of living? European living refers freedom of speech while a black woman has an instinct to hide her feelings or to create a balance between veiling and unveiling.
If poetry is not merely a dream or a vision, yet how is it possible for one to transform what she imagines or what “feels right to her”, since, the poet said that the poetry is not a luxury? How is it the bridge between the said and the unsaid? Feelings come from one’s inner self and thus the poems can be highly opinioned.
Life is a ground of experiments and every day is a new day with new happenings and new things to discover and to learn. Then how is it possible that there are no new ideas and no new pains to discover? How have we hidden the facts in the same place where we have hidden our power? Though, we have poems to which makes the dreams more realizable and provides strength to speak, feel and to dare.
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