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Emily Dickinson
December 10, 1830 –
May 15, 1886
Fewer than a dozen of her
nearly eighteen hundred
poems were published
during her lifetime.
“Much Madness is Divinest Sense” - 8/27/12
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
MUCH madness is divinest sense
To a discerning eye;
Much sense the starkest madness.
’T is the majority
In this, as all, prevails. 5
Assent, and you are sane;
Demur,—you ’re straightway dangerous,
And handled with a chain.
1. Summarize this poem in your own words.
2. Comment on the effect of the second person pronoun in “Much
Madness....”
3. Defend, refute, or qualify a classmate’s summary & comment.
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