Silence (The Piano)

This wonderful film ends with Ada (Holly Hunter) quoting the first lines of Thomas Hood's Silence, a perfect choice, not only to match Ada's former muteness, but to evoke her piano's silence and her longing for it.
The text of the whole poem is as follows:

Silence (by Thomas Hood)

There is a silence where hath been no sound,
There is a silence where no sound may be,
In the cold grave—under the deep deep sea,
Or in the wide desert where no life is found,
Which hath been mute, and still must sleep profound;
No voice is hush’d—no life treads silently,
But clouds and cloudy shadows wander free,
That never spoke, over the idle ground:
But in green ruins, in the desolate walls
Of antique palaces, where Man hath been,
Though the dun fox, or wild hyena, calls,
And owls, that flit continually between,
Shriek to the echo, and the low winds moan,
There the true Silence is, self-conscious and alone.

Видео Silence (The Piano) канала Santi Abad