PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Urbancová, Linda TI - POETRY OF EMPTINESS AND SILENCE IN COLLECTION OF POETRY THE BLACK HERALDS DP - 2021 Sep 1 TA - Bohemica Olomucensia PG - 104--115 VI - 13 IP - 3 AID - 10.5507/bo.2021.046 IS - 1803876X 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 César 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.