Abstract: Like the black hole, silence takes the readers to the boundless poetic universe. In modern poetry, si? lence is presented in imagery and declaratives. It often refers the readers to the indication and signification they find between the lines; the estimable silence in reading lies in the fun experienced among the floating signifiers. Silence is the main feature of Taiwanese poet Luo Renling.“Quietness”,“muteness”,“calmness”,“peacefulness”, and“serenity”are the key words that frequently appear in her poetry; the disturbing world and the popular poetic trends can hardly shake her composed philosophical qualities. If calculated by the proportion of declarative statements and imagery expressions used, silence is presented in at least three manners:1. imagery expressions integrate narration if not dominating it; 2. severed but still connected imagery expressions of imaginary death are used in describing survival, allowing the experience of life and death on the paper to condense into reality; 3. declarative statements are almost all buried in imagery expressions that seem to contain propositions seen from their sentence patterns, grammatical structures, and interactive imageries.

Key words: Luo Renling, modern Taiwan poetry, silence, declaratives