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Analysis and comments on Silence by Billy Collins

Comment 1 of 1, added on April 1st, 2009 at 1:55 PM.

I think the poem silence is all about wet carrot sitting under the summer
sun. It is getting dryer and dryer by the second. The carrot's life is soon
to be over but out of no where a little girl picks it up and takes it home.
She puts it in a pot of water and saves the carrots life. The girl
befriends the carrot and gets married to it because it is a guy carrot.
They move into a nice suberban home and live a long happy life together.
They grow old with eachother and the ironic part of this is that the lady
ends up drying up and dying before the carrot does. So the moral of this
story is to not pick up dry carrots.

Jasmine Frye from United States



Information about Silence

Poet: Billy Collins
Poem: Silence
Volume: Picnic, Lightning
Year: 1998
Added: Feb 21 2003
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