“Tell all the Truth but tell it slant” by Emily Dickinson

I also summarized this poem by Emily Dickinson not too long ago and wanted to include it in my blog. After reading about Emily Dickinson and lloking into her poetry, I find her to be extremely interesting, talented, and fun to read. Here is the summary of the poem, "Tell all the Truth but tell it slant."

I have two opinions on this poem. In my first opinion of reading this poem, I took it to mean that the truth, when told, should be let out slowly to others. Some people can not handle the truth and it needs to be in the form of a little white lie sometimes to benefit the other person. The idea of the truth being too bright can mean telling the whole truth all at once can sometimes be way too shocking and can blind the person as the sun blinds us when it hits our eyes too quickly. I still feel that this is what the poem means, but I also felt some religious message within the poem also. Being that I was in Catholic school my entire life, it reminds me of a story in the Bible of Jesus teaching of how the truth may be revealed by signs and other types of figures, or it can be taught by lightning. Lightning is how either St. Peter or St. Paul was taught, if I remember correctly. The truth appeared suddenly to him as he wanted it and went blind because it was as fast and bright as lightning. I know Emily Dickinson was very knowledgeable of the Bible and religious teachings, so it could mean that also. I personally interpret it as the first part of this summary I wrote, but both make sense.

I heard a Fly buzz – when I died by: Emily Dickinson

I summerized this poem not too long ago, and I found it to be a fantastic poem. I have included my summary of it here. Enjoy!

This poem by Emily Dickinson is yet again a poem about death, as she writes about so often. This poem explained the person who is dying to have a a painless death, but yet it seems to be extremely gruesome in vision. The fly in the poem is very important and significant and is also in 4 different lines throughout the poem. The fly symbolizes death. The fly is the main image in the poem and is what the speaker sees and experiences as she is dying. The air in the room is still and quiet, there are people watching over her silently as she is dying, but she only hears the fly. The line that says, “The Eyes around – had wrung them dry” explains how the people who are witnessing this death have no more tears to cry and no more grief left to give. “The last onset” is her last breath, the end of one life, yet the beginning of her eternal life. She is ready to die and anticipates her death. Now the fly appears to her again, although “the king” mentioned, who may be God, does not appear. This may be a sign that she has no passed, since the fly may represent death again. This may say that after all, there is no life after death for her. This poem was very eerie in my opinion, but yet again another well written poem by Dickinson.

My Poem and Song BrokenDown

So, one of our posts was supposed to be our favorite poem and another post had to be our favorite song. Now, long before this assignment was given I had already posted my favorite poem, and a song, although not my favorite, but up in the top 3. So for my third post, I decided to briefly analyze "why" they were both chosen.

I love the poem web of love. When I first got topgether with my girlfriend, I liked to write her poetry and leave it on her bed, so when she would come home, she would read it right away. It was a nice way to end off a long day. Now, another month or two go by and I am ready to write another. I came up with this idea about how it would be so cool to speak of how our lives have weaved together into this web. This web would be a web of love. I started to write my edition and then looked online for some word help and noticed someone had wrote a poem, "Web of Love." I dont know who wrote it but it was the most beautiful thing I have read and it was perfectly made for what I wanted to say. So I printed the poem and told my girl that someone must have wrote this for us, because I could have not done a better job explaining how I felt. Thank you unknown poet for writing a perfect poem and one I will never forget.

As for the song, I happened to hear it back in the early part of 2001. I thought it was one of the most creative and message sent songs that I have heard in a while. There are not many rap/hip-hop songs out there that were sending messages at the time. Before I heard that song, the last good messeage was, "Brenda's got a baby", by TuPac Shakur. Since then, "Jesus Walks", by Kanye West was another good one. Rap music started with messages, especially positive ones being sent out to the community, and then it started speaking about some BS like jewels, money, woman, and a bunch of other things that "New" money bought them. When the lyrics are written in such a way that they flow perfectly and also have something to say, the music then becomes "Pure Poetry" just like the song by Freddro Starr below.