Emily Dickinson's Much Madness Is Divinest Sense

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I agree, yet also disagree with Emily Dickinson’s poem Much Madness is divinest Sense. I am interpreting this poem as a way to say to use my own judgment while deciding to agree with the majority. In a way though, this poem is as an overall statement that does not decipher whether or not the situation someone is agreeing to is beneficial for them, and that is why I cannot make a definite decision of agreeing or disagreeing. “To a discerning Eye -” in the second line is portrayed to me as someone with wisdom will see sanity when the majority sees madness, as “Much Sense - the starkest Madness,” says that the same discerning eye will see madness in what the majority sees as sane. The poem is saying that majority rules, and people who disagree

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