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#1129 (1263) ("Tell all the Truth but tell it slant-")
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#1129 (1263) ("Tell all the Truth but tell it slant-")
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Poem Details
Original Publication Year:
1872
Poet:
Emily Dickinson
Poetic Form:
Other
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#341 (372) ("After great pain, a formal feeling comes-")
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#601 (517) ("A still-Volcano-Life-")
#613 (445) ("They shut me up in Prose-")
#657 (466) ("I dwell in Possibility-")
#1072 (194) ("Title divine-is mine!")
#1129 (1263) ("Tell all the Truth but tell it slant-")
#1705 (1691) ("Volcanoes be in Sicily")
1705 (Volcanoes be in Sicily)
1129 (Tell all the Truth but tell it slant——)
1072 (Title divine——is mine!)
657 (I dwell in Possibility——)
613 (They shut me up in Prose——)
601 (A still——Volcano——Life——)
520 (I started Early——Took my Dog——)
508 (I'm ceded——I've stopped being Theirs)
341 (After great pain, a formal feeling comes——)
280 (I felt a Funeral, in my Brain)
303 (The Soul selects her own Society)
754 (My Life had stood——a Loaded Gun——)
712 (Because I could not stop for Death)
258 (There's a certain Slant of light,)
465 (I heard a Fly buzz——when I died——)
Poems that Share Poetic Form
The Fish [Marianne Moore]
1129 (Tell all the Truth but tell it slant——)
508 (I'm ceded——I've stopped being Theirs)
1705 (Volcanoes be in Sicily)
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Dream Song 29
The Road Not Taken
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Fire and Ice
Nothing Gold Can Stay
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The Alchemist
Memphis Blues
Old Lem
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Southern Cop
Dream Song 22
Dream Song 45
Dream Song 46
Dream Song 55
Dream Song 76
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The Fish (Moore)
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The Bridge
Photoheliograph (For Lady A.)
I Sit and Sew
We Wear the Mask
When Malindy Sings
Sympathy
#508 (353) ("I'm ceded-I've stopped being Theirs-")
#1705 (1691) ("Volcanoes be in Sicily")
Goin Mah Own Road
The Black Finger
