Emily dickinson's "Tell all the Truth but Tell it Slant". Poetry analysis
Date Submitted: 09/10/2006 02:43:59
Category: / History / European History
Length: 3 pages (852 words)
Category: / History / European History
Length: 3 pages (852 words)
"Tell all the truth but tell it slant"
By Emily Dickinson
Tell all the Truth but tell it slant---
Success in Cirrcuit lies
Too bright for our infirm Delight
The Truth's superb surprise
As Lightening to the Children eased
With explanation kind
The Truth must dazzle gradually
Or every man be blind---
Emily Dickinson poem "Tell all the truth but tell it slant" is about telling the full 'truth and nothing but the truth' and
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tells this poem in a circuitous route which is very effective and necessary in the point she was trying to convey .She makes the reader come to realise how complex her writing is when trying to grasp her point. In Conclusion she is trying to convey the point that truth must be told in a round about way so that we can accept it and be able to understand its concept, Not instantaneously but gradually.
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