Analysis Much Madness is Divinest Sense
... “Much Madness is divinest Sense-” is no different from any of her other poems. ... Dickinson often uses different forms in her poems to aid in the portrayal of the message, as is the case in “Much Madness is divinest Sense-. ... This makes the poem much easier to understand and easier for the reader to identify with the speaker’s situation, which helps to establish the theme of the poem. ... In “Much Madness is divinest Sense-,” Dickinson particularly uses images that call to the reader’s sense of touch and sight. ... In the next line, there is another paradox in which the speaker refers to sense as “starkest Madness-. ... In the first line, consonance is implemented with a repetition of the s sound “Madness is divinest Sense.” There is also alliteration in the m sound that is apparent in words like “Much…Madness… and Majority.