Essay on the poem The Mad
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The Mad can be analyzed from several points of view. Let's look at the poem from the angle of New Criticism. New criticism focuses on the aesthetic adornment of the poem. The poet says that their language is not of dreams but of moonlight and it overflows on the full moon day. The poet is adorning language with the aesthetic of a hyperbole of imaginative literary fantasy. They see Gods which we have never heard of. Here the poet ventures into a realm of space where the mad can see the autochthonous deities through the workings of their inner consciousness. Their visions are more surreal than ordinary human beings. They are shaking their wings when they are shrugging their shoulders. Shaking their wings is a metaphoric hyperbole. The hold to the belief that flies have souls and the Green God of Grasshoppers leaps upon wings. The language used here is personification. Trees bleeding are also a personification. Heaven gleaming in Kitten's eyes and ants singing in chorus is also the language of personification.