"Much madness is divinest Sense"

 

I think that there is another poem from Emily Dickinson that shows non-conformity. This poem applies to today very much. Its name is "Much madness is divinest Sense". It says that people who are considered "mad" by society, (or don't conform,) are often ones with the best ideas (divinest sense). In the last lines of the poem, Dickinson says that if you conform, or assent, to society, then you are considered sane and good, while if you are different, then you are “handled with a chain.”  I think that this is especially true today. One example of this is bullying. People are bullied because they are different, and the bullies want to raise then own self-esteem by putting down others. Also, I definitely think the statement “Much madness is divinest Sense” is very true. Some of the greatest minds of today and the recent past didn’t conform to society or were different, and look where it got them. I have a picture of Albert Einstein because although he isn’t particularly modern, he shows that this statement is still true.

"Some keep the Sabbath going to Church"

The other day I thought I'd read some Emily Dickinson. I was feeling interested in non-conformity and thought she could give me some advice. First I read "Some keep the Sabbath going to Church". In this poem, it seemed like Dickinson was isolated from everyone else. She said she kept the Sabbath in a different way. She seemed happy doing this, though. She said that she kept the sabbath in her orchard, in nature. Theere were bobolinks singing as her choristers. Dickinson said that she was "going to heaven all along". I wonder if that means that nature is her heaven, and she is always in it. This poem also has a lot of metaphors--like the orchard as her chapel, the boblink as her chorister, etc.