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 2.What heavily connotative words are used? What words have unusual or special meanings? Are any words or phrases repeated? If so, why? Which words do you need to look up?

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 2.What heavily connotative words are used? What words have unusual or special meanings? Are any words or phrases repeated? If so, why? Which words do you need to look up?

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The comparison of an opposing opinion to madness is repeated a couple times throughout the poem. Dickinson puts emphasis on madness by describing it as stark and much. This is to show how important one's opinions can matter to others when they aren't aligned and how much of an outcast those differing opinions can make someone. The words assent & and demur are used to describe ones divinity instead of their actual meaning. If you assent, or agree with the masses, you are sane but if you demur, or disagree, you are utterly dangerous.

- Hailey :)

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5. Are there any symbols? What do they mean? Are they universal symbols or do they arise from the context of this poem?

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5. Are there any symbols? What do they mean? Are they universal symbols or do they arise from the context of this poem?

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A symbol that can be drawn from this poem is "a discerning Eye-". The eye in this poem represents the public opinion in the context of this poem. The meaning behind this cryptic poem is how those who challenge social norms in any manner are the true sane ones. "Much Madness is divinest Sense-" highlights this point by describing the madness (going against public opinion) is the divinest or most pure, sense/logic. The discerning eye represents the public because it scrutinizes those who are out of place.

Aaron Phan

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4. What figures of speech are used? How do they contribute to the tone and meaning of the poem? 

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4. What figures of speech are used? How do they contribute to the tone and meaning of the poem? 

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The poem, talking about how one could be shamed for not following the majority, is very paradoxical. Emily Dickinson points out  that many will shun and shame someone of a differing opinion to that of the mass's.  "Much madness is divinest Sense-" To have your own thoughts is to have true divinity and knowledge is what Dickinson is trying to explain in her poem "Much Madness is divinest Sense." The quotation mentions madness as divinity, which is contradictory.  To be divine is to be described as holy or sacred and comparing that to a sort of insanity almost insults the divine themselves. It creates a tone of resentment and rejection because people are basically told that if they don't agree with what the masses deem to be true they are considered crazy and they become outcasts.
- Hailey :)

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1. What is the poem's tone? Which words reveal this tone? Is this poem ironic?

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1. What is the poem's tone? Which words reveal this tone? Is this poem ironic?

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This poem has an ominous and vague tone. The repetition of the words "Madness" and the words, Assent, Demur, sane, and straightway dangerous give rise to an ominous feeling. These words are harsh and can "scare" the reader into trying to decipher Dickinson's cryptic formatting and the message. This poem is ironic because she can encapsulate an understanding of society despite being a recluse. Often times, it is those who challenge the social norm that discover great things. "Assent - and you are sane- / Demur- you're straightway dangerous-" (Dickinson line 6&7) this quote encapsulates this idea.

Aaron Phan