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Poet: Emily Dickinson
Poem: 435.
Much Madness is divinest Sense
Volume: Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Year: Published/Written in 1955
Poem of the Day:
Feb 21 2002
Comment 22 of 22, added on December 9th, 2007 at 9:41 AM.
hi i think that all of mad man are divinest signs. and thank you for this poem my friend emily i love this poem because its reality and true.
sahel from Iran
Comment 21 of 22, added on May 18th, 2007 at 12:15 PM.
Much Madness = Truth with a capital "T".
Divinest Sense = The ability to see Truth amidst distracting voices, sights, and sound.
Much Sense = Whatever society deems of worth (good, bad, and ugly).
The Starkest Maddness = Accolades for that which socially "makes sense" is madness (Emperor's New Clothes? 7 immediate golden globe nominations for a movie about gay cowboys with explicit scenes?)
The rest of the poem follows reason: Assent and you are part of the group. Demur and one finds oneself ostracized or marked as dangerous (Read 1984 or Brave New World for more on this).
Emerson said: It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion, it is easy in solitude to live after one's own. But great is the man who in midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
titima from Morocco
Comment 20 of 22, added on May 18th, 2007 at 12:15 PM.
Much Madness = Truth with a capital "T".
Divinest Sense = The ability to see Truth amidst distracting voices, sights, and sound.
Much Sense = Whatever society deems of worth (good, bad, and ugly).
The Starkest Maddness = Accolades for that which socially "makes sense" is madness (Emperor's New Clothes? 7 immediate golden globe nominations for a movie about gay cowboys with explicit scenes?)
The rest of the poem follows reason: Assent and you are part of the group. Demur and one finds oneself ostracized or marked as dangerous (Read 1984 or Brave New World for more on this).
Emerson said: It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion, it is easy in solitude to live after one's own. But great is the man who in midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
titima from Morocco
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hi i think that all of mad man are divinest signs. and thank you for this poem my friend emily i love this poem because its reality and true.
sahel from Iran