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Emily Dickinson (1830-1886 / Amherst / Massachusetts)
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A Secret told

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A Secret told—
Ceases to be a Secret—then—
A Secret—kept—
That—can appal but One—

Better of it—continual be afraid—
Than it—
And Whom you told it to—beside—

Emily Dickinson


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  Michael Pruchnicki  (1/10/2009 12:37:00 PM)

The cryptic lines of 'A Secret told' convey the essence of a message from Emily Dickinson as she crouches behind that partly open door, like a visitor from some distant and dark planet of the soul. The reader pauses to parse the words and the line breaks, all of a piece with the poet's intent. After all, as Emily said, 'much madness is divinest sense /to a discerning eye. /Much sense the starkest madness...'

Consider well before you blurt out the secret!
  okeydokey #3  (1/10/2008 7:03:00 PM)

do not...dishonor the secret...or the person one could tell...by telling them...
  Erik Lee  (1/10/2008 3:14:00 PM)

Isn't a secret told a possible break in your social image? Isn't Emily message: better scared than humilated?
  Mo.  (1/10/2008 2:31:00 PM)

It sounds like,

She rather keep a secret about herself,
Then tell others and be humiliated.
  Archie Langford  (1/10/2008 1:19:00 AM)

She`s right of course a secret told becomes a confidence, I think
  Delilah Miller  (1/10/2007 3:31:00 PM)

Sounds like Emily was betrayed or was keeping a secret.
  Stefan Jankiewicz  (1/10/2005 12:59:00 PM)

Something to muse about.

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