In Quest of Truth “Tell the truth but tell it slant” by Emily Dickinson can be interpreted as a poem that recognizes some overlapping features between truth and lie and in the meantime indicates the eventual distinction between the two.
“Tell all the truth but tell it slant-
Success in Circuit lies…”
In the first two lines, Dickinson bids that “all the Truth” must be told in a “slant” way and in order to tell it successfully, truth must be told circuitously. And in the following lines Dickinson explains further what telling truth in a slant, circuitous way means.
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At the beginning of the story old Major summon the animals together and tell them the truths about the current conditions of the animals. Old major questions “order of nature,” he says that “ The life of an animal is misery and slavery: that is the plain truth… But is this simply part of the order of nature?” (Orwell, p. 18) He denies the deprivation of the animals as opposed to the order of nature but human abuse. “Man is the only real enemy we have. Remove man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished for ever,”(Orwell, p. 19) says he. At that time, the statement is a discerning truth since humans do oppress the animals and they seem to have no other factors other than men that cause them hunger and overwork. And during a short while after the revolution the suffering order of nature is proven wrong, for a time they are equal and have plenty of food. Nevertheless, as time goes by the truths brought forth by the old Major are overthrown. Men are not the animals’ only enemy but also the tyrannical pigs and the animals themselves.The starvation they face under human rule cannot be compared to the one they face under the pigs’ regime, and the order of nature becomes true again by the pigs’ tyranny and the animals’ ignorance and inability to fight back.The truth in the beginning has at last become a lie and lie has yet again become
“Tell all the truth but tell it slant-
Success in Circuit lies…”
In the first two lines, Dickinson bids that “all the Truth” must be told in a “slant” way and in order to tell it successfully, truth must be told circuitously. And in the following lines Dickinson explains further what telling truth in a slant, circuitous way means.
“ As Lightning to the Children eased With explanation kind...”
The aforementioned lines throw light on how to tell the truth …show more content…
At the beginning of the story old Major summon the animals together and tell them the truths about the current conditions of the animals. Old major questions “order of nature,” he says that “ The life of an animal is misery and slavery: that is the plain truth… But is this simply part of the order of nature?” (Orwell, p. 18) He denies the deprivation of the animals as opposed to the order of nature but human abuse. “Man is the only real enemy we have. Remove man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished for ever,”(Orwell, p. 19) says he. At that time, the statement is a discerning truth since humans do oppress the animals and they seem to have no other factors other than men that cause them hunger and overwork. And during a short while after the revolution the suffering order of nature is proven wrong, for a time they are equal and have plenty of food. Nevertheless, as time goes by the truths brought forth by the old Major are overthrown. Men are not the animals’ only enemy but also the tyrannical pigs and the animals themselves.The starvation they face under human rule cannot be compared to the one they face under the pigs’ regime, and the order of nature becomes true again by the pigs’ tyranny and the animals’ ignorance and inability to fight back.The truth in the beginning has at last become a lie and lie has yet again become