Emily Dickinson's Poem 'Telling The Truth'

somewhere if we are to distinguish the lies that tell truths form the just plain

The next seemingly arbitrary decision is Dickinson's capitalization. The capitalization at the beginning of the sentence must be capitalized; therefore, we'll focus on the capitalizations that lie within each sentence. In this poem, each of these words is a noun. Past this simple reading, what may we deduce from these capitalizations? Each stanza presents a different set of capitalized objects

The capitalized words are the key words of the poem. They add weight to the lines, tipping the balance of the poetic rhythm. The reader is invited to ponder over their meaning and significance (Miller 59). The capitalization gives Dickinson’s poems concreteness and symbolism (Miller 58). The reader’s attention is drawn to these capitalized words. They form an image in the reader’s mind. For example, in the first example, the capitalized words are Slant, Winter, Afternoons, Heft, Cathedral, and Tunes. These words alone evoke the image of a cold and lonely day which burdens the heart like the heavy and mournful tones of an organ. Just words “Winter Afternoons” carry sensations of frigidness, bleakness, and loneliness. “Winter Afternoons” set the scene and describe the mood (Porter 141). The words “Ethereal Blow” strike the reader as an oxymoron. Ethereal implies something light, delicate, and

bringing forth the truth, but in the end, the battle for truth creates more trauma than it’s

Dickinson’s poem unfolds truth to society’s power over a woman’s identity. The poem has an angry tone read from the first line, “I’m ceded- I’ve stopped being Their’s-” (1). A defiant and condemning voice aimed at an ambiguous, authoritative figure who is embodied by the capitalized, plural pronoun “Their.” Dickinson’s refusal to exactly specify who “Their” is, demonstrates the power and relationship “Their” has over the speaker. Dickinson interchanges this pronoun with “They” (2) as the poem progresses on, and this larger entity is associated as the church, family, society, etc. because of Dickinson’s references to “church” (3) and “childhood” (6) within the opening stanza. Dickinson’s narrator is tired of being put aside or controlled by others. This angry tone begins to grow louder as Dickinson beings conveying this message and while the poem moves through stanzas uncovering the narrator’s identity.

TRUTH-We can not escape the truth it is better to face the truth head on and deal with it.

Or is the truth enough of a

Truth allows humans to stand-alone. When they find truth they are able to be one against the whole. "Being in a minority even a minority of one did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not

In the film the Learning Tree one “shared group value” presented in the film is in a small town located in Kansas; which is a home to both African Americans and whites. Racism is still presented in the film but the African Americans respect their community, are religious, family oriented, and educated. A scene in the film where African Americans respect their community is when Newt and his girlfriend are at an ice cream parlor and asked to leave since they were African American, instead of making a scene they calmly left and showed that they respect the area around them not to cause destruction out of anger, also showing that they are not brutes. Even though Africans American are still seen a lower than the whites in the film, they befriend

I never saw my mother, to know her as such, more than four or five times in my life; and each of these times was very short in duration, and at night. She was hired by a Mr. Stewart, who lived about twelve miles from my home. She made her journeys to see me in the night, travelling the whole distance on foot, after the performance of her day 's work. She was a field hand, and a whipping is the penalty of not being in the field at sunrise, unless a slave has special permission from his or her master to the contrary--a permission which they seldom get, and one that gives to him that gives it the proud name of being a kind master. I do not recollect of ever seeing my mother by the light of day. She was with me in the night. She would lie down with me, and get me to sleep, but long before I waked she was gone. Very little communication ever took place between us. Death soon ended what little we could have while she lived, and with it her hardships and suffering. She died when I was about seven years old, on one of my master 's farms, near Lee 's Mill. I was not allowed to be present during her illness, at her death, or burial. She was gone long before I knew any thing about it. Never having enjoyed, to any considerable extent, her soothing presence, her tender and watchful care, I received the tidings of her death with much the same emotions I should have probably felt at the death of

In the poem the first word is always capitalized, and from there the words capitalized are words that almost inflict pain in themselves. For example the words “Pain, Blank,When, Future, Infinite, Past, and New,”(Dickinson 650) are some of the words Dickinson capitalizes all of them are words that can mentally cause suffering. Each of those words are unknown they are words that we see and they cause us to remember or think about something thats either painful or unknown to most which in turn helps with the theme of pain always being there no matter

their lack of consideration for what is true shows that they have no intention to tell the truth, or

Poetry has the ability to expand minds and put its reader in touch with the world around them. Emily Dickinson attempts to convey the power of poetry in her poem I Dwell in Possibility. She pours her passionate feelings about poetry into this poem and drives her point home with a comparison to prose. Using language, structure, and symbolism, Emily Dickinson’s I Dwell in Possibility effectively articulates how poetry can broaden horizons and provide an escape from the mundane.

Dickinson is by no means stating that we should keep the truth completely hidden; however, she is quickly asserting her opinion of how the truth needs to be told. In telling the truth one must slant or hold back from embellishing all of the details of that particular truth. The ensuing line, “Success in Circuit lies” (1.2), parallels the first lines’ slant with a curvature of a circuit. A circuit goes perfectly around an area eventually returning back to the same spot. Dickinson conveys that only certain details should be let out, eventually giving you the truth as a whole. Also the words chosen in this line seem have reason to be grouped together. The word “lies” (1.2) is paired within a sentence with the word “Success” (1.2), giving the connection that lies may be needed to obtain success. The poem is trying to point out that truth and lies both can become truth, if they are presented in the correct circuit. The third line, “Too bright for our infirm Delight” (1.3), uses a metaphor to compare truth to light. This metaphor is full of imagery, associating truth to something that stimulates one’s sense of sight. Something that is too bright hurts the eyes, thus the metaphor conveys that telling the truth in its entirety can at times be painful. Finally, the last line of this stanza, “The Truth’s superb surprise” (1.4), personifies the truth as having the ability to give a surprise. A

The first issue is what actually is truth? There are many things that we perceive to be true, depending on perspective or our beliefs, which differ from one person to the next, known as