In Emily Dickinson’s ‘Tell all the Truth but tell it slant”, she expresses that the truth cannot be completely exposed, but can be softly introduced. By using a Volta, she connected the severity of exposing the truth to going blind by a bright light. This explanation is like someone’s eyes adjusting to a sudden bright flash. Also, she stated that there can be a “kind explanation” to the truth which was explained as a soft “dazzle” of light. The enjambment between lines three and four helps put emphasis on that couplet which is Dickinson’s reason why the truth cannot be unveiled. The poem consists of 4 couplets with varying syntax stresses on each line. She uses heroic couplets, which are rhymes in each line, and those rhymes were words with
