For Bronk silence is not the absenc...

For Bronk silence is not the absence of perfect but that which makes metrical composition possible, the ground of necessary language In "The Brother in Elysium," his plain meditation on Thoreau, Melville, and Whitman, Bronk writes "Silence is the world of potentialities and meanings beyond the actual and represented which the meanness of our actions and the interpretations present upon them threatens to conceal.... Nothing is worth saying, nothing is worth doing take exception as a foil for the waves of silence to break against" (VSC 80) "Silence," he cites from Thoreau, ...