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=Proposed edit's to Wikipedia's Success is Counted Sweetest article for ENG1300=


 * 1) Summary
 * 2) What is poetry?
 * 3) Sound: Alliteration and Assonance
 * 4) Meter
 * 5) Symbol

Reading List

 * 1) Dandurand, Karen. (Mar., 1984). "New Dickinson Civil War Publications"
 * 2) Morris, Timothy. (Mar. 1988). "The Development of Dickinson's Style"
 * 3) Sewall, Richard Benson. ((1994). "The life of Emily Dickinson"
 * 4) Longsworth, Polly. (1997). "The World of Emily Dickinson"
 * 5) Martin, Wendy. (2002). "The Cambridge companion to Emily Dickison"
 * 6) Kirk, Connie Ann. (2004). "Emily Dickinson: a biography"
 * 7) Leiter, Sharon. (2006). "Critical companion to Emily Dickinson: a literary reference to her life and work"
 * 8) Priddy, Anna. (2008)."Bloom's How to Write About Emily Dickinson"

Original
The poem's three unemotional quatrains are written in iambic trimeter with only line 5 in iambic tetrameter. Lines 1 and 3 (and others) end with extra syllables. The rhyme scheme is abcb. The poem's "success" theme is treated paradoxically: only those who know defeat can truly appreciate success. Alliteration enhances the poem's lyricism. The first stanza is a complete observation and can stand alone. Stanzas two and three introduce military images (a captured flag, a victorious army, a dying warrior) and are dependent upon one another for complete understanding.[8]

Revised
"Success is Counted Sweetest" is a poem that contains three unemotional quatrains that are written in iambic trimeter with only line 5 in iambic tetrameter. The rhyme scheme is abcb. Instead of using punctuation marks, Dickinson mostly used dashes as punctuation. In many of Dickinson's poems, abstract and material items are used to describe each other while having no relation.

In the first stanza, "success" and "need" are two different relations but together explain a theme. The poem's "success" theme is treated paradoxically: only those who know defeat can truly appreciate success. Alliteration enhances the poem's lyricism. The first stanza is a complete observation and can stand alone. In the first stanza, the theme is that the person who understands success is the one who has failed. Also, a poor man who has not eaten will appreciate the taste of food or drink better than a man who eats lavish meals everyday.

Stanzas two and three are dependent upon each other and introduce military images (a purple Host, a captured flag, a victorious army, a dying warrior), both stanzas together are needed to understand one another. The second stanza describes victory but needs the third stanza to complete it. In the third stanza, it is learned that the defeated soldier, who lies dying and listening to the sounds of victory from the enemy, is the only one who understands the true meaning of success.

Sound Devices
Emily Dickinson's poem "Success is Counted Sweetest" uses sound devices such as alliteration, consonance, and assonance. Alliteration Is a stylistic literary device identified by the repeated sound of the first consonant in a series of multiple words, or the repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables of a phrase. "Success is counted sweetest" (1) is the first example in Dickinson's poem. Consonance is a poetic device characterized by the repetition of the same consonant two or more times in short succession, as in "Can tell the definition". (7) Assonance takes place when two or more words close to one another repeat the same vowel sound but start with different consonant sounds. "To comprehend a nectar/Requires sorest need". (3, 4)

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