The Little Mute Boy
The little boy was looking for his voice. (The king of the crickets had it). In a drop of water the little boy was looking for his voice. I do not want it for speaking with; I will make a ring of it so that he may wear my silence on his little finger. In a drop of water the little boy was looking for his voice. (The captive voice, far away, put on a cricket’s clothes).
The Little Mute Boy - meaning Summary
Searching for a Lost Voice
The poem presents a small boy searching for his voice, imagined as a fragile, elusive thing found “in a drop of water” and held by a cricket-king. Rather than reclaim speech, the speaker plans to turn that voice into an ornament of silence for the boy to wear. The final image, of a captive voice disguised in cricket clothes, suggests loss, transformation, and the tension between expression and enforced muteness.
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