04-27-2014, 02:22 AM
The "Tears dry up" stanza feels off. At first the poem seems to show the speaker's isolation after confirming to society's expectations of sanity (best highlighted by the fourth stanza), but then, by that stanza, it suddenly transitions to some sort of glimmer of light (the stanza easily connoted a scenario wherein the speaker was sent to some tearless, carefree paradise) before concluding the full depth of the speaker's earlier point("a maze of my own humanity" being a statement of the completeness of the speaker's isolation): it seems to add a change of direction that's never really merited. But other than that stanza, the whole poem feels heavy on the mind (in a good way); it seems to force into its readers a mood of contemplation, especially with regards to madness and its relationship with social conformity.