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 * //Success is counted sweetest //**

In “Success is counted sweetest “, Emily Dickinson states that only those who understand the pains of failure know the true definition of victory. Through hardship, soreness and pains that losers came across to fight for their success, their victory is more meaningful than those winners that didn’t come through those obstacles.



**Success is counted sweetest **

Success is counted sweetest By those who ne'er succeed. To comprehend a nectar Requires sorest need.

Not one of all the purple host Who took the flag to-day Can tell the definition, So clear, of victory!

As he, defeated, dying, On whose forbidden ear The distant strains of triumph Burst agonized and clear!

In the first stanza, the author states that to those who never succeed, “success is counted sweetness”. She implies that the true meaning of success can only be understood by those who fail to succeed. We can’t appreciated and enjoy “a nectar” without the experience of soreness. Just like we can enjoy the sweetest of honey if we never taste the bitter, spicy of peppers. Or we can’t understand the salvation in Africa because we are in America, where hunger isn’t an issue.

The second and the third stanza are referring to war victory. Those that won the battles, “took the flag” will not be able to comprehend and appreciate the true meaning of victory. Those that were dying defeat for their victory, because they are losers, they feels the pains of losing for things they fought so hard for. The winners would not be able to understand this feeling because they didn’t get to experience the pains, the disappointments of losing. These two stanzas can be interpreted as we are people that stay by and watch the war, even though, our country won the battle, we won’t be able to fully understand victory like our soldiers do. Because they had been lost, they had suffered; they had to overcome many hardships to earn that victory.

In conclusion, Emily Dickinson message was people tend not to appreciate what they didn’t earn it on their owns. Another message is that people often desire what they do not have. And those who have it all do not appreciate what they have because they have never been having nothing!

I think this poem messages are very similar to the idiom “ **// the grass always look greener on the other side ”//**



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