The theme or topic of Anne Carsons essay is that of silence: silence in connection with language, with translation, etc. She tends to jump around throughout her essay, thus it may be difficult to get a precise handle on what she means by silence. For this blog post, choose 1-2 sentences from the essay in which Carson either uses the word silence or silence is what the sentence is about and paraphrase it. First quote the sentence(s) you chose and then try to interpret what you think Carson is attempting to delineate/argue/illustrate by re-stating it in your own words. Minimum 250 words.
