Poem+67-+Success+is+counted+sweetness

The first stanza talks about success. It says that success is a sweetness, which it is. You can feel success throughout your body. When you taste something sweet it just revives your mood and enlightens your spirit and gives you a sense of accomplishment. Success is what you receive after you finish a long hoped for task. Just like when a cake or other sweets are given to someone to reward them (such as a graduation, a birthday, etc.); success is the invisible gift that is given to your heart and mind to satisfy your want for completion. Then the stanza talk about those who haven’t yet succeeded in what they want to succeed in, it takes time and a lot of effort towards your goal and that incredible want for the sweetness success drives you to reach that point. The second stanza is hard to comprehend, but I’m going to take a guess. I think it’s saying that there is really no way to describe victory. It’s such an intense emotion that you have to experience to know how it feels. You can’t define the feeling of victory to someone who has never felt that sense of triumph.

The third stanza is describing the agony of defeat. The feeling of defeat is deafening to someone who wants to prevail. Defeat is such a horrible thought to even consider when you’re so caught up in reaching your goal. It is not an option to those who are inspired. 1204264328

To me Emily Dickinson is saying that success might be thought of more highly by those who don't succeed because they never really try to succeed. But then on the other hand, someone could say that the people who always seem to succeed, never give success even a glance because its normal for them and they think that they're so good or something like that. It's wierd how the mind works in that way; how people who almost never succeed think more higly of succeeding than those who almost constantly are winning or succeeding. If I won at everything I ever did, it wouldnt be that special but if I never ever won anything than I would really want to celebrate if I won something. Wining all the time can be boring but if you win every now and then, then it makes it more special. 1205279392

i agree with dte that accomplishments might be looked upon more highly by people who don't have much success because they never actually strive to succeed. Although there are people who think that they have gloating rights just because they accomplish something. I don’t really think it’s weird that people think that way because it’s easy to appreciate things that you don’t have and people that do have it take it for granted. Like dte said, “If I won at everything I ever did, it wouldn’t be that special but if I never ever won anything than I would really want to celebrate if I won something”. take me for example I think that on everyone of my chemistry test I got and A and I don’t really care but if I get an A on a Spanish test I would be really happy and sort of celebrate. 1205280914