Quote:
“The Truth must dazzle gradually/ Or every man be blind” (Dickinson 91)
Summary:
These lines from the poem 1263 of Emily Dickinson states how true should be told to men. It should be told slowly and in a discrete way or else men won’t understand it and will deny it.
Response:
This poem has a consistent rhyme and when I read it, it had this sarcastic tone which I believe was Dickinson purpose because maybe, she wanted to point out people’s inability to see the truth. When the poem starts she is proposing the reader to tell the truth indirectly or else it will not be accepted or it will cause revolt among people.
She compares how truth affects men with how lightning can affect children. By making a simile between these to facts she is saying that as lightning scares children, truth scares men, and the only way they can be calmed is with kind words or by telling the truth slowly and in a discrete way. She uses nature to show that even though truth is something that scares people, it is also a simple reality that is in front of our eyes like nature. However, sometimes people decide to stay away from it, because it can be as sudden and scary as lightning.
Therefore, these two lines caught my attention because they sum up what Dickinson explains in her poem, which is that if truth is told straight forward, men will be scared and will refuse to believe it. Nevertheless, if truth is told gradually, it will be hard to accept first, but there will be ways to calm men and make them believe it. This aproach to truth will be easier than to tell them the whole truth and expect them to accept it without questions. In my opinion truth will always be subjective to certain point, since everyone sees their own truth and they will change it, accept it or refuse it according to their beliefs.
“The Truth must dazzle gradually/ Or every man be blind” (Dickinson 91)
Summary:
These lines from the poem 1263 of Emily Dickinson states how true should be told to men. It should be told slowly and in a discrete way or else men won’t understand it and will deny it.
Response:
This poem has a consistent rhyme and when I read it, it had this sarcastic tone which I believe was Dickinson purpose because maybe, she wanted to point out people’s inability to see the truth. When the poem starts she is proposing the reader to tell the truth indirectly or else it will not be accepted or it will cause revolt among people.
She compares how truth affects men with how lightning can affect children. By making a simile between these to facts she is saying that as lightning scares children, truth scares men, and the only way they can be calmed is with kind words or by telling the truth slowly and in a discrete way. She uses nature to show that even though truth is something that scares people, it is also a simple reality that is in front of our eyes like nature. However, sometimes people decide to stay away from it, because it can be as sudden and scary as lightning.
Therefore, these two lines caught my attention because they sum up what Dickinson explains in her poem, which is that if truth is told straight forward, men will be scared and will refuse to believe it. Nevertheless, if truth is told gradually, it will be hard to accept first, but there will be ways to calm men and make them believe it. This aproach to truth will be easier than to tell them the whole truth and expect them to accept it without questions. In my opinion truth will always be subjective to certain point, since everyone sees their own truth and they will change it, accept it or refuse it according to their beliefs.
2 comments:
20/20 Love the lightning pic you picked.
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