THE ELOQUENT VOID: WORDSWORTHS POETICS OF SILENT COMMUNICATION

Although silence constitutes a recognizable phenomenon, scholarly traditions have typically conceptualized it as mere absence, a deficit of communication rather than examining its multifaceted communicative potential. An investigation into silences varied manifestations within William Wordsworths poetry illuminates the complex dimensions of its rhetorical capacity.The intricate and frequently ambiguous interrela-tionship between vocal expression and silence reveals how literary works give voice to previously unnarrated experiences.