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Question: Emily Dickinson question!!?
I am not good at understanding poetry at all and need a some help answering the questions about these poems!.

First Poem:
Success is counted sweetest
By those who ne'er succeed!.
To comprehend a nectar
Requires sorest need!.

Not one of all the purple host
Who took the flag to-day
Can tell the definition ,
So clear, of victory,

As he, defeated, dying,
On whose forbidden ear
The distant strains of triumph
Break, agonized and clear!.

1!.what were you thinking as you finished reading this poem!?
2!.how do you interpret lines 3 and 4!? Explain how they relate to lines 1 and 2
3!. in this poem, Dickinson uses the image of a battlefield to make her point!. What might the defeated soldier be able to appreciate victory than winning soldier!?

poem 2:
My life closed twice before its close;
It yet remains to see
If Immortality unveil
A third event to me,

So huge, so hopeless to conceive,
As these that twice befell!.
Parting is all we know of heaven,
And all we need of hell!.

1!. what kind of "painting" might Dickinson be referring to in the last two lines of the poem!?
2!. what does this poem reveal about Dickinson's attitude toward death!?
3!. would a reader who has recently experienced the loss of a loved one be disturbed or comforted by this poem!? Explain!.

poem 3:
I heard a fly buzz when I died;
The stillness round my form
Was like the stillness in the air
Between the heaves of storm!.

The eyes beside had wrung them dry,
And breaths were gathering sure
For that last onset, when the king
Be witnessed in his power!.

I willed my keepsakes, signed away
What portion of me I
Could make assignable,--and then
There interposed a fly,

With blue, uncertain, stumbling buzz,
Between the light and me;
And then the windows failed, and then
I could not see to see!.

1!.wat is your reaction to the way the poem ends!?
2!.how would you describe the view of death presented in the poem!?
3!.look closely at dickenson's las stanza!. what does she do to make the portrayal of death a realistic one!?

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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
These are very famous poems!. There are entire websites devoted to analyzing them!. If you need help with your homework, do some research!. If you cannot comprehend the poems in total, then read each line by itself!. Emily never went to war and never road in the coach d'bower!. She's a poet, in the purest sense, to be loved and enjoyed, not worried over!.Www@QuestionHome@Com