Emily Dickinson's Success Is Counted Sweetest
The purple host in the second stanza is victorious but is unable to identify what that truly means. However, in the last stanza, the dying and defeated man is able to understand what success is because he has an actual desire to achieve it. A lot of Emily Dickinson’s works take contain complicated ideas and thoughts conveyed in a simple way. “Success is counted sweetest” declares its meaning right at the beginning, that people generally tend to want what they do not have. Dickinson demonstrates her awareness of complex truths and how she views such ideas in a relatively straightforward way, simply saying what she believes as fact. She often compresses broad ideas into very short sayings.