Although there may be emotions that cannot be expressed in words, "there is no experience prior to its enunciation in and through language" (Conley, 6). Hélène Cixous,

believes in speech that enables her to do the economy of her desire, to

"traverse" an experience. There is always something to be desired, yet

this desire is not based on lack. The insistence is on movement, not

stasis. Speech is never rational, scientific. Always becoming, it never

becomes the system, the recipe to be applied. (6)

Our thoughts are based on language, for we cannot have thoughts without symbols/words to denote the actions/images/conversations running through our minds. Through speech we attempt to "traverse" our experiences and get at the emotions, or the "meaning" according to McGuckian, behind our experiences. There may always be something left "to be desired," for there are feelings inside us that language will never be able to capture. Yet that is part of the power of the feelings--their inexpressibility; they exist and yet we cannot render them.

Thus language itself entraps us the way McGuckian's poetry does. "Always becoming" and never reaching the state of "being" (of capturing every emotion), language keeps us searching for ways to express ourselves, for ways to communicate with each other, and for ways to reach the unconscious realm. Through her rhythm McGuckian keeps this search in motion.