Question

What does "the silence of the tide" mean? What does it do?​

Answer 1

Answer:

"The silence of the tide" refers to the quiet tidal waves of the sea,which remains calm

Answer 2

What does "the silence of the tide" mean? What does it do?

Answer:

When birds are dead in the morning.” Hunger says during the poem that “My silence is like the silence of the tide. That buries the playground of children.” this is one of the similes in the poem. It's meaning being that hunger is as silent as the tide, and it silently comes over the children.