Unit 6. Post 4.

Much Madness is Divinest Sense by Emily Dickinson.

"Much sense - the starkest madness" (Dickinson, line 3).

This poem made me think of the novel Catch 22 and how the recognition of insanity made one in fact sane. Might I add that that novel was too confusing. I think that Dickinson was trying to differentiate how those who are insane have some other view of the world from those who are sane, and how that alternate view of the world is what makes the insane sane in their own respect. I also feel that by saying the majority, Dickinson made the statement that those who claim sanity are in fact insane for blindly following the majority.
I simply don't know what she was trying to get across in this poem. Maybe Dickinson is exploiting the beauty of poetry by allowing her poem to bring forth many different interpretations. Nevertheless, it can be inferred that she is creating a contradictory relationship between sanity and insanity.

Question one asks how specific words within the poem provide a resolution for the paradox between sanity and insanity. I think that Majority provides a justification of how those who are claiming they are sane because the majority states that they are. Discerning, meaning of good judgment, I am not sure how to interpret.