Fall at the Lake House 11-15-23

Activity at the Lake House has decreased. But the chicken is still on the roost.

There is always a wind off the lake.

And these light colored deer as seen from the kitchen window have nested down under the bird feeder.

And even in the fall there is action on Lake Aspen.

On the whole it is a time of silence. I am inquiring into the silence.

                              Silence

            There is a silence where hath been no sound, 

            There is a silence where no sound may be, 

            In the cold grave—under the deep deep sea, 

            Or in the wide desert where no life is found, 

            Which hath been mute, and still must sleep profound;

      No voice is hush'd—no life treads silently, 

      But clouds and cloudy shadows wander free, 

      That never spoke, over the idle ground:

      But in green ruins, in the desolate walls 

Of antique palaces, where Man hath been, 

Though the dun fox, or wild hyena, calls, 

And owls, that flit continually between, 

Shriek to the echo, and the low winds moan, 

There the true Silence is, self-conscious and alone. 

    Thomas Hood

'Silence' by Thomas Hood describes the ways in which Silence exists in the world and the places that one can find it.  The form of 'Silence' is described as follows. It is a fourteen line, Petrarchan, or Italian, sonnet. The sonnet is divided into two sections, the first is made up of eight lines, referred to as an octave, and the second made up of six lines, a sestet. The octave follows a standard rhyming pattern of ABBAABBA while the sestet follows a scheme of CDCDEE, neither standard nor unusual for a sonnet of this kind. 

The separation between the first and second half is comprised of a turn or a volta. This turn provides a beginning and an end to the problem or story. It may also be an answer to a question. In this case, the speaker is expanding on the concept of Silence and providing a contrasting example to those in the first half. (Wikipedia)

Another day I will share an analysis.