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 With explanation kind The Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind... A Thinking Reed - Seite 275von Barry Jones - 2006 - 561 SeitenEingeschränkte Leseprobe - Über dieses Buch
| Howard Koch - 1980 - 284 Seiten
...time of war, for acceptable levels of distortion. Emily Dickinson, in a poem about propaganda, advises "Tell all the truth, but tell it slant— / Success in circuit lies." Mission to Moscow had plenty of slant, but not enough truth. The film serves as a warning for those... | |
| Giles Gunn - 1981 - 489 Seiten
...startled Grass That Darkness — is about to pass — "Tell all the Truth but tell it slant—" (ca. 1868) Tell all the Truth but tell it slant — Success in...Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind — Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) Sixteenth President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln has perhaps... | |
| Barton Levi St Armand - 1986 - 388 Seiten
...corresponding metaphysical truth overwhelm and totally engulf the frail consciousness of the observer: Tell all the Truth but tell it slant Success in Circuit...Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind- Q n29] Such were the dangers of dealing with the unveiled mysteries of the sublime. The paradox was... | |
| Adena Rosmarin - 1985 - 218 Seiten
...surprisingly, the explanation of these complexities itself grows complex. Chapter 3 The Mask Lyric Tell all the Truth but tell it slant Success in Circuit lies. Emily Dickinson Maintenant, je suis juge-penitent. Albert Camus Complicating the Rhetoric of Lyricism:... | |
| Robert Neal Wilson - 1986 - 190 Seiten
...gave poetic point to this aspect of art's truth-value: Tell all the Truth but tell it slantSuccess in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight...Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind— 3 The humanist's voice claims, with persuasive rhetoric if not with wholly convincing evidence, that... | |
| Sara R. Horowitz - 1997 - 296 Seiten
...that is cognitively and psychologically unsettling to the reader. Like Emily Dickinson, who advises, 'Tell all the Truth but tell it slant / Success in Circuit lies" (248), Rawicz's narrator asks that one thinks through the world-shattering losses of the Shoah, rather... | |
| John Bryant, Robert Milder - 1997 - 452 Seiten
...Shakespeare, at the very time when Moby-Dick was taking form; so Emily Dickinson would enjoin us to "Tell all the Truth but tell it slant— / Success in Circuit lies." 10 Even as truth-teller Ishmael is leading us out of our everyday world into the world of ships and... | |
| James S. Taylor - 1998 - 224 Seiten
...Poetic Knowledge and the Integrated Humanities Program Tell all the Truth but tell it slantSuccess in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth's superb surprise. —Emily Dickinson o awaken wonder was the major work of the muses and of the Integrated Humanities... | |
| Barbara Williams - 1998 - 328 Seiten
...reader is not overwhelmed. 7 was interested to find Emily Dickinson expressing a similar vieurpoint: Tell all the Truth but tell it slant Success in Circuit lies [...] The Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind - 3 Your words and Dickinson's both suggest... | |
| Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi - 1998 - 488 Seiten
...Emily Dickinson once wrote in one of her poems is very relevant to the problematics of autobiography: "Tell all the truth, But tell it slant. Success in circuit lies." See Richard B. Sewall, "In Search of Emily Dickinson," in Extraordinary Lives: The Art and Craft of... | |
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