Tell All The Truth But Tell It Slant Meaning

Topic: Tell all the truth but tell it slant — (1263) By Emily Dickinson Can we handle the truth? The truth for better or worse is always a powerful point that people can make. When I was young telling the truth was always very important, but at times it can be hard. Sometimes the truth hurts and sometimes for the better depending on the situation. On Emily Dickinson’s famous poem she analyzes the power of truth and the honest way to tell it.

The poet is clearly interested in truth by reading this poem. The words that Emily Dickinson uses are powerful and efficient. The poet dresses her words with a great character, and importance, she also forces the readers to discover the connections between the words and look up for the meaning of each word. “Tell all the Truth but tell it slant” we can tell that the poet recognizes the truth, but she also builds a dynamic option to hold it back, when she says “tell it slant”. However, This poem gives us some doubts about how honest this “slant” telling really is. Going back to into the first line,
“To bright for our Infirm Delight" infirm means not physically or mentally strong and sometimes that happen because of age, and we are infirm because nobody has the ability to handle truth. Truth is to much or to bright for us because it can be explained unfairly, and people would not know what or how to do with it either. "As lightning to a child eased" the poet mentions a great example about the truth by referring the scariness that children have of lightning and people could be scared of the complete depth of the truth, so it relieves us to get a little bit of the truth or accepting those lies that can make us feel better and either way we will be frightened, we must have the truth but it has to be