Literary Analysis Of Success Is Counted Sweetest By Emily Dickinson

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Register to read the introduction… The poem speaks about having a victory over your opponent and the sweet feeling of defeating that opposition. Dickinson directly tells the reader that the “losers” know the definition of defeat better than the winners do. In the last stanza of the poem, it speaks about the enemy hearing the screams of pride and victory and the sound has become agonizing and clear. “Success is Counted Sweetest” tells us through literature the great feeling of victory and the intolerable reality of defeat. …show more content…
“A common idea in Dickinson’s poems is that not having increases our appreciation or enjoyment of what we lack; the person who lacks understands whatever is lacking better than the person who possesses it”(Melani). Dickinson was explaining how society does not appreciate the things we already have. The research also explains how Dickinson was using alliteration in stanza two. “Not one of all the purple host/ Who took the flag to-day/ Can tell the definition/ So clear, of victory!” (5-8). Line five reads “purple host” which may suggest that a king wearing it since purple was a sign a

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