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The Heart Asks Pleasure First This poem by Emily Dickinson marks the Death as a savior to all sorts agonies of life. Dickinson’s style of using dashes recurs in the poem. The heart or the emotional side of the narrator asks first for pleasure. If its need is not catered, it wants to be excused from the infliction of pain. Then the sufferings from the pain try to be suppressed with the help of anodynes and painkillers. The painkillers fail to do its job of relieving. It is felt by the narrator to fall asleep to pass the egregious state. Sleep too is unable to soothe her. Now, her final request to the “Inquisitor” i.e. God to confer the “privilege to die” peacefully as the last resort. I Never   Saw A Moor The poet confesses that she has never seen a moor but she is well aware of how heather, a shrub grown on the moor, looks like in real. She is also acquainted with the roar of sea tides without actually experienced the sea in first person. She clarifies that she

The poem "Success Is Counted Sweetest" penned by Emily Dickinson, a great American poet of the nineteenth century. A recluse by nature, her poems weren't published before her death. She is known for her originality and unconventional style of writing poetry. The narrator shares its insight into success that it is truly understood by those who have toiled brutally and paid its price. Those who find success "sweetest" are the ones who will never succeed in life. Here, nectar is a metaphor for success. In a battlefield, none of the personnel of "purple host" who is victorious in today's battle can tell the true meaning of their victory. Now they have got it, they lost the earlier respect for it because now it's in their reach. Their defeated, dying counterparts can weigh the victory which they lost as their ears hear the triumphs of victorious and how they themselves yearn it with agony.