Jabberers
Jabberers - meaning Summary
Language from Shared Depths
The poem portrays two speakers who each 'rise out of...depths' with their distinct languages. Their words collide as playful, noisy jabber—similar only in being unlike—producing more questions than answers. Moments of silence are valued, yet speech persists and pours into the vast, consuming flow called time. Language appears both necessary and transient: a human urge to speak that ultimately dissipates into a larger, indifferent temporal gulf.
Read Complete AnalysesI RISE out of my depths with my language. You rise out of your depths with your language. Two tongues from the depths, Alike only as a yellow cat and a green parrot are alike, Fling their staccato tantalizations Into a wildcat jabber Over a gossamer web of unanswerables. The second and the third silence, Even the hundredth silence, Is better than no silence at all (Maybe this is a jabber too-are we at it again, you and I?) I rise out of my depths with my language. You rise out of your depths with your language. One thing there is much of; the name men call it by is time; into this gulf our syllabic pronunciamentos empty by the way rockets of fire curve and are gone on the night sky; into this gulf the jabberings go as the shower at a scissors grinder's wheel...
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