In the song “The Sound of Silence” by Paul Simon the diction is conveyed very well in which the writer is trying to help us to imagine what is happening in the dream. In an article entitled “Song Analysis: Sound of Silence” by Wizzler the author states that “In the 1960s, the middle and upper class majority held the expectation that no one should disturb the silence or voice their controversial opinions”. For example, the phrase “Silence” is used at the end of every stanza to help convey the voice that the people in the 1960s did not have and to represent absence of change. The fear of this “silence” is conveyed as a “cancer” in this song. Like finding a cure for cancer during this time making a change seemed to be nearly impossible. This song
