Two Poems by William Carlos Williams

In the first poem Silence, the speaker is describing a calm, quiet morning in early fall. This poem shows the beauty and serenity that can be found in silence. It displays silence as peaceful and a good thing to have when relaxing or just taking time to stop and notice the beauty of the world. When it is silent, one can think clearly and for a long period of time; it helps a person to discover truths and how enjoyable life can be. The poem is also about how nature is best observed in silence because it eliminates distractions and allows such things as birds to go about their day to day without being scared away by loud noises.
In the second poem The Snow Begins, another side of silence is shown. It is the silence in which one spends time thinking about the sadness in life. The poem talks about how the snow comes and brings cold, frost, and death to a beautiful garden and how it is a quiet killer, slowly and silently falling down upon its victims. The poem isn't just talking about the silence of observing, but also the way snow comes, quietly without drawing attention to itself, it just appears and all of a sudden, everything is gone, covered by the snow. It is like snow takes over everything around it without even trying. Also, the speaker seems like a cynic, commenting on how pointless it is for the garden to continue growing back in the spring, only to die in the winter again.
Both poems show that sometimes words aren't necessary, that there are so many different emotions silence, one doesn't need words to express how they feel. Some times the feeling is just in the silence.