Silent soundscapes. Rilke, Stevens

This article examines how Rilke and Stevens not only depict but also enact an inquiry into the limits of language through their poetry. Silence is treated not merely as an image but as a structuring theme and, philosophically, as a phenomenon. The argument is that both poets, in different ways, challenge the opposition between silence as origin and as excess of language, showing how silence reshapes lyrical subjectivity and reconfigures the surrounding soundscape.