Much Madness id Divinest Sense- Paradox

This poem presents a paradox because, she is saying that to be crazy is to be sane, and to be sane is to be crazy. This differs from the views of society, but she is not talking of strictly of mentally ill persons and the "normal". These are the extremes. She is talking about the everyday individual. She is saying, that since we all are different, in way of thinking, and acting, that we can not all be sane. Since we all think differently from one another, we are all slightly crazy in someone else's eyes. So, because the "majority", are odd, they are all also "sane". So, we are all equal in the fact that we are all different from one another.