Question

What does it mean to live, to feel exposed to the madness
of the vast, eternal sky.

Answer 1

There are several ways you can think about this split—the wild vs. the domesticated, the free vs. the enslaved, the rugged individual vs. society, the genuine vs. the artificial. I think the message of the poem, however, has to do with freedom of expression and the need to be independent of corrupting social influences