As I began to read this poem, it was a short poem but so much was put into it. It was worded and phrase so simply but so very unexpecting.

When I read the first stanza ” Tell all the Truth but tell it slant”-, I read this as a bad thing. It seemed as if the devil was telling you something, the truth, but he put in his own wicked lies to deceive you. As I continued on, I wondered what does the dash represent, does it represent a continuous statement or does it break off in a different idea? At that moment I continued and it seemed like it broke off into a motivation phrase. It said ” Success in Circuit lies”, to me that meant a lot in my life. It turned my mood into a very emotional mood, It made me think a lot about, why am I working so hard? Why am I in school? Why are there failures? This was a motivational stanza of course, it meant when you work hard and go through all the tough failures, get back up because in the end is where you will find success.

It goes on to praising success and how it doesn’t matter about age, whether how old you are. I didn’t understand what was “superb”, so I looked it up and it said it is “excellent”. Where it said “The Truth’s superb surprise”, I saw that Truth was capitalized as if it was a Noun or a person or something very important.

She then continues saying “As Lighting to the Children eased with explanation kind” I, myself pictured it as a calming childing coming out of the dark night, scared and finally calming down. It meant, though a child is very comforted by the light and not scared anymore, the comfort is the enemy of truth. She says “The Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blinded”. She means it as don’t be blinded by what people say but instead search for the real Truth yourself, if you don’t everyone might as well be naive.