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All I'm asking is how do you build an argument claiming inspiration based on the common phrase there is and the common lexeme slant when the lexeme is used in completely different contexts? Talk about reading mountains in molehills.
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I understand what you're asking, Faldage, but it has been a long time since I read the article, which was rather lengthy. Perhaps the article was about Shakespeare's influence on Dickinson--perhaps there was more evidence from secondary sources or even from letters she'd written. I just remember the conclusion of the arguments: that she'd been influenced by the specific line from Hamlet--and the arguments on which that conclusion had been reached are long past me. Sometimes these connections come about by single lines writers may drop in a letter to a friend.
Wish I could be of more help, but I cannot.
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Thanks, Dub'. I don't guess I'll lose any sleep over it.
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Tell all the Truth but tell it slant --
Success in Circuit lies
Too bright for our infirm Delight
The Truth's superb surprise
As Lightning to the Children eased
With explanation kind
The Truth must dazzle gradually
Or every man be blind --
--Emily Dickinson
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All I'm asking is how do you build an argument claiming inspiration based on the common phrase there is and the common lexeme slant when the lexeme is used in completely different contexts? ~ faldage_____________________________Tell all the truth but tell it slant -
Success in Circuit lies
Too bright for our infirm Delight
The Truth's superb surprise
As Lightning to the Children eased
With explaination kind
The Truth must dazzle gradually
Or every man be blind -
_______________________________ ~ Emily DickinsonPost Edit: Great minds Whitt,  and all that, but my presentation is much more colorful.
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The Truth must dazzle gradually
Just so long as it doesn't get bright sometime around 3AM
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Just so long as it doesn't get bright sometime around 3AM
Yeahbut®, the light shines in the darkness...does it have to be literal light?
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explaination'splain this... 'course, then you'll go and change it back and I'll look the fool...
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