Success Is Counted Sweetest by Emily Dickinson - Summary
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.
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.
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