Can anybody give me a brief analysis of the following couplet?
"A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent."
It's from William Blake's "Auguries of Innocence".
2007-10-13 00:34:17 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Poetry
I think he's suggesting that brutally honest is worse than lies. As in, the vicious friend who decides they have to tell you "for your own good."
2007-10-13 00:41:47 · answer #1 · answered by aggylu 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A malicious lie presented as an honest truth is worse than all the lies one can ever manufacture.
2007-10-13 10:12:58 · answer #2 · answered by ari-pup 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
simply means a truth told for hurtful purpose is more hurtful than a lie.
dd
2007-10-16 19:31:28 · answer #3 · answered by Dondi 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it means that if u do a good deed with a bad intention its even worse then the bad deeds u could do instead...
2007-10-13 10:23:56 · answer #4 · answered by vulcan_m 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋