Rhetoric theorists have much to offer and gain from study of the philosophical and linguistic aspects of silence. Rhetorical silence, ellipsis culminating in silence, can be equated with the absence of discourse. The methods of New Rhetoric enable one to analyze the significance of silence in communication, finding hidden, silenced meanings.
In modern literature whose context is a noise-filled environment, remaining silent represents a means to fulfil the requirements of spiritual autonomy. Such silence has its own rhetorical specificity: in terms of communication, it expresses closure, anticipation, and gestures of protest.
In nineteenth-century Lithuanian poetry, the traditional topic of silence is translated by commonplace formulas centering on parallels with night and evening stillness. The rhetorical figure of silence helps to express subtile feelings or to dramatize poetic statements. Silence had not yet been developed in the general context of philosophy or in that, more specific, of existentialism. Modes of expressing silence that exist in dance or music remain unavailable to the verbal medium. The discourse of silence appears to be one of the distinctive features of late modern poetry.

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