Hofmannsthal's "A Letter" is an important work in German poetics and modernist literature, which explores the dialectical relationship between language and reality through the role of Chandous, attracting scholars' attention. The article provides a profound insight into the cultural symptoms of the times, not only criticizing language, but also creating new languages through literary practice, achieving new perceptions and cognition, and proposing poetic solutions that transcend language crises.

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Explored the three emotional stages experienced by Chandler in "A Letter": language immersion in youth, encountering language crises, and forming new language patterns in the experience of "beautiful moments". During his youth, Chandos viewed the world as a readable and interpretable unity, seeing himself as the sole interpreter and ruler. However, with the arrival of the language crisis, his ability to speak gradually lost, and the world fell apart in his eyes. The language crisis of Chandos reveals that the subject's perception of the world has been shaped and encoded by language, and the traditional language order has disintegrated. He criticized the simplified pragmatics and conceptual nature of language, emphasizing the importance of language as a cognitive medium. Chandous' criticism of language is not advocating the abandonment of language, but aims to illustrate the urgent need for new languages among people. He advocates for the creation of a new language that transcends traditional language to give perceptual images meaningful contours. Chandous' language reflection resonates with the ideas of art historian Wollinger, both depicting chaotic scenes and exploring the process of abstraction. A Letter "criticizes people's categorization of concepts and attempts to reproduce the real world through language. After describing the language crisis, Chandos still talks about language, especially the language of" silent things ".

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Chandos experienced a language crisis due to his sensitivity to subtle differences in language, leading to a fragmented world and weakened subjectivity. He believes that language is the key to perception and cognition, but it is not about completely abandoning language, but rather seeking new modes of nonverbal communication. In "A Letter," he described the "language of the silent object," in which the silent object seemed to speak to him in "beautiful moments," freeing him from spiritual bondage. Chandler refuses to describe these experiences in words because they are indescribable. He felt the randomness and contingency in it, making the 'beautiful moments' seem mysterious and unpredictable. Some in the German academic community interpret the Apocalypse experience as a purely sensory mode of perception, believing that it breaks free from the constraints of language and consciousness. But Chandos depicts things as carriers of meaning, even if the meaning is not expressed or cannot be expressed, the symbolic characteristics of things still exist. In the 'good times', Qian Duo Si forms a flowing unity with things, and existence and meaning are integrated. He deconstructed the boundary between fundamental existence and derived language, and envisioned a new language in which the symbolic function of language was abandoned, and the primitiveness of object symbols replaced the non primitiveness of phonetic writing. This new language transcends the difference between signifier and signified, and is a language completely free from the constraints of rational consciousness, directly related to Chandos' experience of revelation. The language of silent objects is full of contingency and randomness, and cannot be interpreted or functionalized. It is not a stable and orderly symbol system.

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The letter explores the language crisis in modern society and envisions a "silent language" that transcends traditional language patterns, aiming to grasp the indescribable meaning. The new language is fundamentally based on the coexistence of signifiers and referents, and the homogenization of words and objects, requiring a new way of perception that transcends the traditional modes of reading and interpretation and moves towards contingency. Chandos perceives overlooked things in the experience of the Apocalypse, but this experience is unrelated to social interaction and aims for beauty itself, surpassing imagination and projection. However, this new language model is difficult to implement because it lacks sociality. Hofmannsthal found a solution in "Conversations on Poetry" by transforming Chandos' experience of the Apocalypse into poetry, allowing the indescribable to be expressed again through language, thus giving birth to "perfect poetry".