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A 5 page paper discussing voice, imagery and theme in "Tell all the Truth but tell it slant" as the primary work, then comparing to and integrating with "I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died" and "After Great Pain, a Formal Feeling Comes." Voice and imagery vary between the three poems, but the theme remains constant. No sources listed.
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Dickinson lived during a time of intense social and political upheaval yet seems to only have been able to see the upheaval within. Her work reflects common themes and
images, and many of her poems quietly and plainly state great insight. Tell all the Truth but tell it slant
Poem 1129, or "Tell all the Truth but tell it slant," is one such Dickinson poem taking only a few lines to reflect an idea
that is commonly true. She writes, "The Truth must dazzle gradually / Or ever man be blind." There are far too many exceptions to call the truth a
universal one, but the observation is a truthful one. Voice It is a passive voice,
one that seeks to instruct and convey information, and one that sounds like the voice of experience. The narrator has had truth dropped on her with what seemed to
be full force, but she later found that there was yet more of that truth for her to learn gradually and as she was able to see it.
The truths of our lives are such that we often see only a part for a time and perhaps even forever. Even those truths
that explode on us and seem to have no further information within them - such as news of death of a loved one - can reveal themselves to hold more
for us at some future time. Other truths are more gentle in their unfolding, though still ruthless in their reality. News of a distressing medical diagnosis can be
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