Much Madness is divinest Sense

Much Madness is divinest Sense, well honestly that title had me a little lost at first. However, Dickinson gets an important point across. Dickinson says that Madness is good sense and good sense is madness. Pretty much, Dickinson is saying being a hipster and be different. Dickinson writes,  "To a discerning Eye- Much Sense- the starkest Madness." Dickinson says that madness is appealing to the people that desire to learn. and understand.

In essence, Dickinson says that those who society deems as mad are the ones who are truly living. Madness is just a different way of thinking that provides effective modes to one's goal. However, society does not think so. People are dubbed as mad because they are different, and society just cannot deal with different people. In addition, Dickinson wants to make the point that good sense, or going with the flow, is madness because one who has "good sense" is a robot of life. These people with "good sense" do not question why things are done the  way they are and they just do it. Those who think differently are alienated and dubbed "mad."