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    A Study Guide for Emily Dickinson's "Tell All the Truth but Tell It Slant"
    A Study Guide for Emily Dickinson's "Tell All the Truth but Tell It Slant"
    A Study Guide for Emily Dickinson's "Tell All the Truth but Tell It Slant"
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    A Study Guide for Emily Dickinson's "Tell All the Truth but Tell It Slant"

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    A Study Guide for Emily Dickinson's "Tell All the Truth but Tell It Slant," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateSep 28, 2016
    ISBN9781535834735
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      Tell All the Truth but Tell It Slant

      Emily Dickinson

      1945

      Introduction

      Little known outside of her circle of admiring acquaintances during her lifetime, the nineteenth-century American poet Emily Dickinson is now recognized as one of history's great literary geniuses, one whose writings stand outside her immediate era in evoking timeless principles of life and human nature. Tell all the Truth but tell it slant is a poem that represents the transcendental side of her experience and verse. At the same time, it is frequently cited as an apt formulation of her poetic philosophy, divulging her favored strategy of approaching truth in indirect ways and hinting at her reasons for doing so. The poem follows a metrical pattern that Dickinson commonly used, alternating between lines with four and lines with three stressed beats. While her poems are often sporadic in their adherence to meter, rhyme, and grammatical consistency, leaving the reader obliged to figure out the underlying meanings of disruptions, this poem offers a smooth and clear read. But this is not to say that there is no mystery behind it. Believed to have been written in 1872, the poem was first published in the collection Bolts of Melody: New Poems of Emily Dickinson, edited by Mabel Loomis Todd and Millicent Todd Bingham, in 1945. In the numbering offered in Dickinson's Complete Poems (1955), edited by Thomas H. Johnson, which has been followed by a majority of critics (and will be used here), Tell all the Truth but tell it slant is poem no. 1129. (In the revised canon of her work offered in The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Variorum Edition [1998], by R. W. Franklin, who had better access to Dickinson's original manuscripts and correspondence, the poem is no. 1263.)

      Author Biography

      Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830, in Amherst, Massachusetts, where she would live almost her entire life. The family was well established in the area, as her grandfather had a law practice that her father and brother would both join. Her father, Edward Dickinson, would also prove a successful Whig politician, serving twice in the state legislature and for one term as a representative of Massachusetts in the US Congress, from

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