Much Madness Is Divinest Sense By Emily Dickinson

One of the tools that are extremely hard to implement in essays but are often useful in poems are paradoxes. For example, Emily Dickinson’s poem “Much Madness Is Divinest Sense — (620)” welcomes her readers with a paradox “Madness is Divinest Sense,” in which she claims that not all madness, but a lot of it, is “Divinest,” or most rational. Dickinson argues that “Madness” as defined by the status quo is, most of the time, sane. Dickinson “To a discerning Eye.” She clarifies that people with good judgment see that much of “Madness” is sound reasoning. It is important to note that “Madness” is not meant in a literal sense rather is a symbol of fallacious and obliviousness. With that in mind, another interpretation of the first line is “Madness” gives people the most godlike “Sense” of awareness and an insight of a free mind and individuality to not conform to the majority.
prevail.” Arguably, “’Tis the Majority” is the most crucial line in the poem and Dickinson indicates it quite clearly by not ending it with a