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Tell All the Truth but Tell it Slant by Emily Dickinson

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Tell All the Truth but Tell it Slant by Emily Dickinson

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What images does the poet use? How do the images relate to one another? Do these images form a unified pattern (a motif) throughout the poem?

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What images does the poet use? How do the images relate to one another? Do these images form a unified pattern (a motif) throughout the poem?

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Dickinson uses the sun and says it is, "too bright for our infirm delight: the truth’s superb surprise". Although she does not use the word sun, she uses dazzling and bright to describe it. She compares the light to the truth saying that the light could reveal the blinding unknown. She uses images such as lightning to compare her message with common teachings, "as lightning to the children ease/ with explanation kind". Kids are usually reassured when lightning or thunderstorms occur. These parents usually have a delightful way of coping with their kid's fear. Emily Dickinson starts off with the booming line of telling the truth but slant. To tell the truth but slant is to coat the truth because people are usually overwhelmed similar to the children overwhelmed with lightning.

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 What figures of speech are used? How do they contribute to the tone and meaning of the poem?

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 What figures of speech are used? How do they contribute to the tone and meaning of the poem?

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Figures of speech that are present in the poem include metaphor and imagery. As an example of a metaphor, Emily Dickinson compares "lightning to the children" and the truth to others. To elaborate, lightning is difficult to explain to children since they wouldn't completely understand it. Dickinson uses lightning as a comparison to the truth by communicating that the truth should be soften since it may be difficult for others to understand. In addition, imagery is described in the poem when Dickinson states, "every man be blind". Readers can visually imagine the scene of a man being blinded. Instead of being blind by a light, Dickinson uses "truth" to be the light that is too harsh for some to see.

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 What is the theme (the central idea) of this poem? Can you state it in a single sentence? Elaborate on your idea.

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 What is the theme (the central idea) of this poem? Can you state it in a single sentence? Elaborate on your idea.

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The central idea of this poem revolves around "Truth". Throughout the poem, the speaker of the story describes to readers that telling the truth may be too harsh for others. Emily Dickinson states that "the truth must dazzle gradually or every man be blind." In the poem, the "truth" that Emily Dickinson is referring to is death. When being told the whole truth, it may shock or affect others life. Emily Dickinson argues that it would be better to lessen the affect by sugarcoating or giving an indirect description of the full truth. The speaker explains that coming out with the whole truth may be overwhelming and encourages readers to sugarcoat the truth lightly, rather than lying.

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What is the poem’s tone? Which words reveal this tone? Is the poem ironic?

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What is the poem’s tone? Which words reveal this tone? Is the poem ironic?

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The tone of this poem is a form of enlightenment. Dickinson informs the readers passive aggressively of how the world can not fear of the truth forever because it enhances ignorance. Emily Dickinson states in the beginning of the poem, "tell all the truth but tell it slant". Simultaneously, she knows that people can not grasp the full idea of the truth so she advises the readers to tell the truth gradually and with ease.