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