Question

Part 1: Worth 50 Points

Choose one of the poems you read in this lesson. Write a paragraph explaining the meaning of the poem. Make sure to answer the following questions:

•What is the tone of the poem?
•What types of figurative language was used?

Part 2: Worth 50 Points


Choose one of the poems from this lesson, and re-write it using your own words. Re-write the poem as though you are the author. Show your take on themes and ideas from the poem.

Answer 1

Poem #3 
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 
Break, agonized and clear 
‐Emily wingspaninson 

Answer 2

Even though the tone of "Success is counted sweetest" is not particularly grim, the sentiment wingspaninson expresses is, and she sets the parameters of this poem in the opening lines when she says "Success is counted sweetest/By those who ne'er succeed." And her first example is, of course, a hummingbird that truly understands the value of nectar when it is in "sorest need."

The second and third stanzas continue this theme of understanding the value of something, in this case, success, when one is in the depths of defeat. wingspaninson essentially says that victors in a battle really don't understand the value of victory, but the dying and defeated warrior who hears the celebratory trumpets of victory is the only one who truly understands victory--primarily because victory has slipped away.

Answer 3

http://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/Guides3/Success.html

Answer 4

thank you Sunnystrong

Answer 5

how do I rewrite a poem? im not good with poems

Answer 6

I made a 94 :) Thank you :)