Unity and order is something that Joanne Burns doesn’t believe deeply about. Burns conveys her true beliefs about these issues through two of her many poems. “echo” and “I travelled to the outskirts” …“Such excessive fealty”.
Overall, her dislike for unity and order is reflected in the poem structures as we shift from the issues raised in the poems to the lack of punctuation used by Burns. Each have there own ways of symbolising that there is no order or unity within the poem structure itself.
In the poem “echo”, Joanne Burns describes 7 different people experiencing silence and their reactions to it. Burns uses characters in her poems to emphasize her beliefs and attitudes.
In the first stanza the man obviously has some issues with silence. Whether he was experiencing the silence within his head or literally experiencing silence is unknown, but his choice to disrupt is socially unacceptable. This is the way he emphasizes his dissatisfaction.
