Question

Read the stanza given below and answer the questions that follow:
"And of this circumstance
There is nothing to say at all.
Its silence silences."

a)What does 'this circumstance' refer to?

b)Explain: 'Its silence silences.​

Answer 1

Answer:

a) By the phrase ‘of this circumstance’, the poet means the circumstance of the death of her mother.

b) The silence of this situation silences her. In other words, she is left speechless. Fate has killed all the feelings in her.

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