'The Sound of Silence' by Simon and Garfunkel is a song written in the 1960's about the extent to which people suppressed their true views about the Vietnam War. The poetic voice is the poet himself and it is through his vision that we are made aware of the great disappointment that he feels at the peoples inability to say what is on their minds.
The title suggests the poet's realization that there are so very few people responding to the cruelty and injustice of the war that the silence actually gains a sound. From the very first stanza of the poem, the mood of disappointment sets in whe…
