The Snow Begins by William Carlos Williams

After reading "The Snow Begins" by William Carlos Williams the feeling of 'silence' didn't overwhelm me. Reading the poem multiple times gave the reader a chance to create images of silence, but never blatantly evokes silence. For example taking the first stanza by itself, "a rain of bombs, well placed, is no less lovely but this comes gently over all" one would typically not correlate any of the above with silence. Bombs are almost never used simultaneously with silence, yet this bomb "comes gently over all". I enjoy when poets use two completely opposite objects to achieve lines in there poetry. Bombs and gently couldn't provide as a better example.
As the poem progresses Mr. Williams begins creating a blanket of silence with his words. If the 'bombs' are being characterized by silence, then the poem is easy adapted. Throughout the poem this 'blanket' of snow or silence is overpowering to all other aspects in the poem. It covers all the 'crevices' and 'heals' all the wounds. Silence in this poem is almost superhuman, taking everything around it and almost comforting it. If you were to read this poem out of the context of silence many different interpretations could be made. This poem is ambiguous. Taking the same poem and analyzing it for qualities of "super-natural" or even war themes could be done. Mr. Williams poem "Silence" poem on the other-hand completely encompasses silence. There isn't any confusion of what the theme is in this poem.