Edgar Allen. Poe's constant mentions of the mirror image of a two-fold being alludes to the general theme, life and death, throughout "Silence" by using many references to a separate yet the same state between the two entities as the layout of life and death. His extensive symbolism of death refers to Poe's history, and how Poe's life is merely but a succession of deaths of those who he loved. The overpowering emotions filled with this Italian sonnet directly refer to Poe's struggle with his reality of death, personifying it as a shadow that lurks him, so as to give a form to that which has taken his family, friends, and wives away from him, and that which offers the ultimate relief.

The distracting apathy towards death of Poe is quite eerie. He mentions death as having no evil power, which is confusing seeing as Poe accepts death...