Success Is Counted Sweetest
“Success is Counted Sweetest”
This poem is about one who suffers defeat can then understand success. First the poem talks about how success is a sweet nectar and such a good thing everybody needs to find. Then it talks about how everybody can’t take the flag and know what success is, and taste that sweet nectar. And this is the first sign the poet is talking about war with mentioning a flag. In the third paragraph it talks about people dying and loud screams which really gives away she is talking about a war.
The main point of the poem is that people need to taste victory and know what failure is to understand the full meaning of success. And dickison is putting it in a much bigger perspective about war and not our everyday lives are
so important because others die all the time. The poem is short and easy to read which makes it easier to appreciate and understand. Even though the poem has a deeper meaning than what is displayed it can be appreciated simpler meanings.
This poem is important to me because I can relate to this. Most people can relate to this poem because people know what failing feels like. I can relate this poem to sports. In sports you have to make mistakes and fail, then learn from those mistakes and get better. Then over time you will win and be successful at that sport. I’m sure other people have a lot of different things that they have failed at then learned from their mistakes and became better. In the poem it puts thing at a much larger scale of dying if you don’t win, line 9 “as he defeated --dying--” the poet shows how our lives and situations aren’t always that bad.
This poem is about one who suffers defeat can then understand success. First the poem talks about how success is a sweet nectar and such a good thing everybody needs to find. Then it talks about how everybody can’t take the flag and know what success is, and taste that sweet nectar. And this is the first sign the poet is talking about war with mentioning a flag. In the third paragraph it talks about people dying and loud screams which really gives away she is talking about a war.
The main point of the poem is that people need to taste victory and know what failure is to understand the full meaning of success. And dickison is putting it in a much bigger perspective about war and not our everyday lives are
so important because others die all the time. The poem is short and easy to read which makes it easier to appreciate and understand. Even though the poem has a deeper meaning than what is displayed it can be appreciated simpler meanings.
This poem is important to me because I can relate to this. Most people can relate to this poem because people know what failing feels like. I can relate this poem to sports. In sports you have to make mistakes and fail, then learn from those mistakes and get better. Then over time you will win and be successful at that sport. I’m sure other people have a lot of different things that they have failed at then learned from their mistakes and became better. In the poem it puts thing at a much larger scale of dying if you don’t win, line 9 “as he defeated --dying--” the poet shows how our lives and situations aren’t always that bad.