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Success is counted sweetest (Poem (Success is counted sweetest By those…
Success is counted sweetest
Poem
Success is counted sweetest By those who ne'er succeed.
Only those who never succeed can most appreciate the concept of success.
To comprehend a nectar
Requires sorest need.
In order to even understand what you desire, you have to want it, and not just a little bit.
Not one of all the purple Host
Who took the Flag today
Can tell the definition
So clear of victory
The winners aren't the best in defining victory.
As he defeated – dying –
On whose forbidden ear
The distant strains of triumph
Burst agonized and clear!
The poor, defeated, dying soldier who never heard the song of victory can appreciate the meaning of victory the most.
Poet
Emily Dickinson
Nationality: American
From 1830–1886
In Amherst, Massachusetts
She believed that poetry was a double-edged sword. It liberates the individual, while it leaves him ungrounded.
Grew up with two siblings.
Her family had strong ties with the community.
Her dad was a successful lawyer educated at Amherst and Yale. He had a successful career.
The 19th century emphasis and focus on science is apparent in some of her works; her fascination with naming, her skilled observation and cultivation of flowers, her carefully wrought descriptions of plants.
She lived much of her life in reclusive isolation.
She was unwed, and her friendships depended entirely upon correspondence.
Her poems were sometimes altered significantly by the publishers to fit the conventional poetic rules of her era.
Her poems are unique characterized by short lines, typically lack titles and often contain rhymes, and often have unconventional capitalization and punctuation. Many of her poems deal with themes of death and immortality, two recurring topics in letters to her friends.
Themes
Appreciating a boon requires privation.
In order to ever truly appreciate something in life, you have to first be seriously bummed out.
Only failures fully understand the meaning of success
Figurative Language
Paradox
Success is counted sweetest
By those who ne'er succeed
Syncope
Ne'er
Alliteration
S
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weetest
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Who
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As he
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