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Emily Dickinson:
“I’m Nobody, Who are You?”
Agenda:
1. Poetry Reading Aloud
2. “The Mother of Modern American Poetry”
3. Life of Emily Dickinson
4. “I’m Nobody, Who are you?”
5. “The Soul selects her own Society”
6. “This is my letter to the World”
7. “I heard a Fly buzz ―when I died”
8. “Tell all the truth but tell it slant―”
Daguerreotype of Emily
Dickinson at 16 in 1847
BUU MOOC on Selected Readings in British & American Poetry
Lecture 8 Emily Dickinson: “I’m Nobody, Who are You?”
8. “Tell all the truth but tell it slant―”(1263)
Tell all the Truth but tell it slant –
Success in Circuit lies
Too bright for our infirm Delight
The Truth’s superb surprise
As Lightning to the Children eased 5
With explanation kind
The Truth must dazzle gradually
Or every man be blind –
(Pages 367-68)
1872
BUU MOOC on Selected Readings in British & American Poetry
Lecture 8 Emily Dickinson: “I’m Nobody, Who are You?”
8. “Tell all the truth but tell it slant―”(1263)
■This poem suggests that indirect expression
will protect the reader by easing the impact. Just
like children who need shielding from the
lightning’s dazzle, readers need to be exposed to
surprising truth indirectly. Dickinson’s poetic
communication depends on a circuitous or
(Pages 367-68) symbolic way
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