文档介绍：Emily Dickinson
Success
& I died for beauty
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Writer introduction
The content of the two poems
The theme of the two poems
The writer introduction
Emily Dickinson, American legendary poet. Born in a lawyer's family. In adolescence, life is monotonous and peaceful. She was regarded as one of the pioneers of modernist poetry in the twentieth Century.
success
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 Burst agonized and clear!
The theme of the poem
This poem tells us that the winner of the triumph can not realize the profound meaning of success. Only the loser and the dying soldier on the battlefield can truly understand the hard-won victory and the sweetness after victory.
I died for beauty
I died for beauty, but was scarce
Adjusted in the tomb,
When one who died for truth was lain
In an adjoining room.
He questioned softly why I failed?
“For beauty,”