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Success Is Counted Sweetest
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Success Is Counted Sweetest |
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Success is Counted Sweetest
Ideas of success are often expressed in poetry, and often these ideas are mixed
between poetry from different authors. Two poems that express these feelings of success
are Emily Dickinson’s “Success is Counted Sweetest” and Edwin Arlington Robinson’s
“Richard Cory”. In both of these poems success is dealt with in sort of the same way this
is that the theme of both is that success can only be realized in death in the Dickinson
poem the success was attained by the characters and only realized in death and in the
Robinson poem success was always there but the man only thought death would bring
him success.
In Emily Dickinson’s poem “ Success is Counted Sweetest” an overlying theme is
present this is that success is only realized in death. At the start of the poem there is brief
description of success that says that success is the sweetest to those who never have it.
Dickinson also in the first stanza of the poem explains that to understand success an
individual must first have a need to have this success. In the whole first stanza Dickinson
is setting up the basis for her story. In the first two lines of the second stanza Dickinson
says “Not one of all the purple Host Who took the Flag today” this is saying that a group
of people one a battle or had a triumph of some sort. Dickinson continues in this stanza
saying “Can tell the definition So clear of Victory” These last two lines say that nobody
in this group can tell what the greatness of their victory is and that they don’t think of it
being successful at all. The first line of the third stanza reads “As he defeated-dying-”
this is simple one of this group is now dying. The rest of the poem reads “On whose
forbidden ear The distant strains of triumph Burst agonized and clear!” What happens
here is that this one man realizes the success of his group at the time of his death and that
he lived his whole life not knowing it and not being able to enjoy it. The main idea of this
poem was that people strive for success but when they get it they want more and only at
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