The Lunatic

The poet's method in "The Lunatic" capitalizes on the contrasts between the world of Lunatic and sane people. What are some of these contrasts and how they bring out the irony of the poem?

The real massage of the poet in this poem is based on the contrasts. Mainly, there is contrast between the world of sane and the sane people with better characters and personalities ironically. He says Lunatic persona gets experiences that a sane can't. Here lunatic sees the sound, hears the picture and tastes the small but that can't be done by sane person. Lunatic touches things that normal person can't what Lunatic speaks that language never be spoken, written or used. Normal person sees nothing in a stone besides stone. A lunatic can see flower in the stone and can talk with bird on it. Lunatic feels the heavenly beauty is smiling to him. He works with sixth sense that normal person works with five senses. Insane works with heart while sane does with brain. Others freeze but Lunatic melts and becomes vapour. All these contrasts show that actually Lunatic is not Lunatic but these so called sane people are mad. Using the mask of Lunatic the poet has dug out the bases of all social, personal, injustices, inhumanity and inequalities of societies and convention.