{"id":54,"date":"2016-09-07T21:29:07","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T01:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/?p=54"},"modified":"2016-09-07T21:29:07","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T01:29:07","slug":"thinking-about-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/2016\/09\/07\/thinking-about-silence\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking About Silence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Silence is far too common, used as a safety blanket to protect people from the vulnerability of voicing raw thoughts and ideas for others to hear. In this section of Adrienne Rich\u2019s, \u201cTwenty-One Love Poems\u201d, she requests that people expose their thoughts. These thoughts have a purpose, and they should not be disregarded and left float into the abyss. \u00a0Rich refers to mind as the \u201cpond where drowned things live\u201d(147) where the \u201cdrowned things\u201d(147) are our muted thoughts. People consistently have a filter turned on, preventing them from saying what they are thinking. \u00a0Intelligent beings capable of critical thinking and problem solving should not allow these ideas to fall into the dark. \u00a0When Rich says, \u201cI want to see raised dripping and brought into the sun.\u201d(147), she is suggesting forgetting the filter and spitting out genuine thoughts. \u00a0The word \u201cdripping\u201d(147) infers that the thoughts should not be revised. Rather than removing them from the water and drying them off with a towel, expose them to the world, saturated with authenticity. \u00a0These legitimate thoughts are what can trigger intriguing conversation, developing an opportunity for an unlimited flow of ideas. \u00a0Rich hopes people will allow their thoughts to come out though it will take time. \u00a0She writes, \u201cIt\u2019s not my own face I see there, but other faces,\/even your face at another age.\u201d(147). \u00a0Children are less cautious with their words, less afraid to speak their minds likely because they are naive. \u00a0Possibly, \u201cyour face at another age\u201d(147) is suggesting to return to the mental state of a child, asking four hundred questions a day without a second thought. \u00a0Also, \u201canother age\u201d(147) may be stating that the ability to vocalize ideas will come in time as some sort of futuristic evolution. Nevertheless, Adrienne Rich is encouraging people to eventually shine the light on their ideas, rather than hide them.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silence is far too common, used as a safety blanket to protect people from the vulnerability of voicing raw thoughts and ideas for others to hear. In this section of Adrienne Rich\u2019s, \u201cTwenty-One Love Poems\u201d, she requests that people expose their thoughts. These thoughts have a purpose, and they should not be disregarded and left &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/2016\/09\/07\/thinking-about-silence\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thinking About Silence<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3225,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fall-2016"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}