Bring on the tough stuff - there’s not just one right answer.
- Compare and contrast this poem to Dickinson's "The Brain—is wider than the Sky— ." How does each poem deal with the topic of the human mind?
- Sense is madness? Madness is sense? Seems like we've got some paradoxes here. Explain how they work in this poem.
- How does the poem's willy-nilly meter affect the overall meaning?
- What is the effect of Dickson's signature use of long dash marks and capitalized words in this poem? Is it just random, or does is seem to have a point? How can you tell?
- Where do you think the speaker of this poem falls on the sanity spectrum?
- What is the relationship between sound and meaning here?