PT Journal AU Urbancova, L TI POETRY OF EMPTINESS AND SILENCE IN COLLECTION OF POETRY THE BLACK HERALDS SO Bohemica Olomucensia PY 2021 BP 104 EP 115 VL 13 IS 3 DI 10.5507/bo.2021.046 DE Cesar Vallejo; indigenism; emptiness; silence; humanity AB The aim of this article is to introduce concepts of emptiness and silence in collection of poetry The black heralds (Los heraldos negros) by peruvian author Cesar Vallejo. The first part of the work captures life events that influenced author's personality and his poetic style. Both of them are well reflected in verses from the first collection. The following section deals with specific analysis of poems and its main focus is to detect the concept of emptiness and silence in them. ER