Wednesday, September 21, 2011

"Much Madness is divinest Sense"

"Much Madness is divinest Sense-
To a discerning Eye-"

What is Emily Dickinson saying? I really don't understand any of her poems.  Why are they so hard to understand?  This particular poem just seems like a bunch of random words put together.  I read the poem a few times and the only thing I got was that it contained a paradox (with some help from the questions).  The paradox is in the above quote and it is saying that insanity is good sense. I am not really sure what the point of the paradox is, but it also has another side to it that says good sense is insane.

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