Question

1. Explain the term 'the sound of silence'.
Ans​

Answer 1

Explanation:

Garfunkel once summed up the song's meaning as "the inability of people to communicate with each other, not particularly internationally but especially emotionally, so what you see around you are people unable to love each other."

Songwriter(s): Paul Simon

Answer 2

Explanation:

The oxymoron (=combination of words having opposite or very different meanings) in the title gives a good idea of incommunicability among people

The poem ‘The Sound of Silence’ consists of five irregular stanzas in which the poet describes the conflict between spiritual and material values in our modern world.