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beside the oak with a huge round hole an uncanny silence
Dave Bonta
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beside the oak with a huge round hole an uncanny silence
Three short lines give us a single scene: a speaker standing beside an oak that has a huge, round hole in it. Nothing happens. No one speaks, and the poem doesn't tell us how the hole got there. What it gives us instead is the silence, which the speaker calls "uncanny."
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