Analysis Of Success Is Counted Sweetest

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Emily Dickinson once stated “If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only way I know it. Is there any other way?” (Emily Dickinson Museum) She produced some eighteen hundred poems and letter, but very few were published before her death. She was described as an introvert and solitary sharing her work with only family and a few closes friends. (PoemHunter) Many of Dickinson’s works had themes of that examined pain, grief, mortality, loss, and art. “Success is counted sweetest” is iambic meter and uses ABCB scheme. This poem is about soldiers have seen victory from two different sides of a battle the victorious and the ones who lost. The lines of the poem “Success is counted sweetest/ By those who ne 'er succeed. / To comprehend a nectar / Requires sorest need.”(PoemHunter) suggest that it is the ones who do not win that can truly see the victory because they understand in better because of their defeat. …show more content…

Her work tended to reflected on the losses that she had experienced in her life. This is very relatable poem for most because after a great pain like the loss of a loved one an almost unknown feeling takes place to the point you do not known how to feel. “The Feet, mechanical, go round” (PoemHunter) suggest that you become also most robotic just going through the motions of everything; anyone who has suffered a great loss should be able to relate to this feeling of having to go on, but no idea how to accomplish going on with your life. This poem used stanza that did not follow the usual ABCB scheme and even had five line instead of four in one of the

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