Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Dickinson's Hamlet

"Much madness is divinest sense
To a discerning eye;
Much sense the starkest madness.
'T is the majority
In this, as all, prevails.
Assent, and you are sane;
Demur, -- you're straightway dangerous,
And handled with a chain" (Dickinson).



Does Hamlet, then, have "divinest sense" and his mother and uncle "starkest madness"? Could one say they were "handled with a chain"?

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