https://padlet.com/szyosafi100/8hk6ou3rh3tu en-us 2017-03-24 16:31:14 UTC 2017-03-27 17:05:36 UTC hello@padlet.com szyosafi100 https://padlet.com/szyosafi100/8hk6ou3rh3tu/wish/162470083 2017-03-24 16:40:24 UTC https://padlet.com/szyosafi100/8hk6ou3rh3tu/wish/162470083 szyosafi100 https://padlet.com/szyosafi100/8hk6ou3rh3tu/wish/162470339 5. How does "Much Madness is divinest Sense" challenge our assumptions about madness?
The poem defies the idea of how madness is seen by society. People often see madness in a negative view, believing that something is wrong in someone's brain. However Dickinson challenges this idea of madness being wrong and a mistake and instead brings the perspective of madness being seen by society, by stating, "Assent- and you are sane- / Demur- you're straightway dangerous" (lines 6-7). She shows a new light on the idea of what madness is and defines the idea as the act of rebelling society. Instead of something being wrong, madness is seen by society and it's the unknown or the forbidden opinions of those who dare to express their opinions.]]> 2017-03-24 16:41:16 UTC https://padlet.com/szyosafi100/8hk6ou3rh3tu/wish/162470339 lavo101 https://padlet.com/szyosafi100/8hk6ou3rh3tu/wish/162471417 8.  Dickinson liked to use dashes- a mark of punctuation her early editors removed. How do dashes help emphasize certain ideas in "Much madness is divinest Sense"?
Dickinson not only uses the dashes as a way to stress emotion throughout her poem, it is also a way to create a sense of unfinished thoughts and ideas. In the poem, she uses it as an emphasis on her thoughts and opinions. "Assent- and you are sane- Demur- you're straightaway dangerous." In these two lines, it is used as a break between her objective opinions on society. Overall, she uses the lines as a way to highlight the theme that rejecting society's beliefs will result in not being accepted by anyone.]]> 2017-03-24 16:44:31 UTC https://padlet.com/szyosafi100/8hk6ou3rh3tu/wish/162471417 szyosafi100 https://padlet.com/szyosafi100/8hk6ou3rh3tu/wish/162473771 There are a few symbols within the poem. Two of them stand out the most to me: an Eye and a Chain. Dickinson first states, "Much Madness is divinest Sense- / To a discerning Eye", using the symbol of an Eye to represent those who are labeled as "crazy", those that observe and view the world differently: the odd ones, who society titles queer and peculiar (lines 1-2). She also uses "a Chain" to symbolize the impact of expressing one's opinions against society: he/she is labeled as crazy, chained to a nonexistent problem for standing up to what he/she believes in. She mentions the Chain by stating that if you rebel against society, you're considered dangerous "And handled with a Chain" (line 8). The Chain represents a metaphorical box, or category, society places people who dare to defy it in. Both symbols arise in this context in the poem and relate to the idea that people label those who are different or have different ideas as mad or insane.]]> 2017-03-24 16:51:04 UTC https://padlet.com/szyosafi100/8hk6ou3rh3tu/wish/162473771 lavo101 https://padlet.com/szyosafi100/8hk6ou3rh3tu/wish/162473845 Dickinson uses the word "divinest" in her poem title as well as the first line in her poem, and the word means to be the most godlike and holy. She uses the word to describe how smart insane people are, as she describes their "sense" to being the most divine. The word is special because it upholds insane people as having wisdom that is "god-like".  Other heavily connotative words that Dickinson uses are assent and demur, which are opposites that mean to agree and object.]]> 2017-03-24 16:51:19 UTC https://padlet.com/szyosafi100/8hk6ou3rh3tu/wish/162473845 lavo101 https://padlet.com/szyosafi100/8hk6ou3rh3tu/wish/162886879 Much Madness is divinest Sense-
To a discerning Eye-
Much Sense- the starkest Madness-
'Tis the Majority
In this, as All, prevail-
Assent- and you are sane-
Demur- you're straightaway dangerous
And handled with a Chain- ]]> 2017-03-27 16:48:54 UTC https://padlet.com/szyosafi100/8hk6ou3rh3tu/wish/162886879 szyosafi100 https://padlet.com/szyosafi100/8hk6ou3rh3tu/wish/162888979 Logan Vo and Safa Yosafi]]> 2017-03-27 16:54:28 UTC https://padlet.com/szyosafi100/8hk6ou3rh3tu/wish/162888979