"Tell all the Truth"

1. What does the expression slant the truth mean? It means to be able to bend or almost change the truth. 

2. What might tell all the truth slant mean? It means to tell the truth but change the story. 

3. What is the major difference between the two expressions? One tells you to not tell the complete story and the other one tells you to tell the complete story. 

4. Explain the meaning of Circuit (line 2) in the context of the poem. What is "To bright for our infirm delight" (line 3)? Circuit means a full loop. The second part means that we can not handle all success. 

5. Lines 5 and 6 provide an example to illustrate the poet's point about truth. As is typical of Dickinson's technique, she omits several words in these lines. How would you rephrase these lines to make a full sentence? An example would be that children do not need to know the truth about Santa right away but eventually once they become disbelieving they will learn the truth.  “An explanation like lightning will be eased upon children”

6. What metaphor is implied in line 7? What things is truth being compared with? The truth is being compared to lightning, if it is seen all at one the man who looked would be blinded.