Toni Morrison and Emily Dickinson Poetic Description :: Poetry Poem

Toni Morrison and Emily Dickinson use poetic description to engage the ref into the moment. Poetry is a language with different elements. Some say that poetry has to crap literary elements such as metaphors and similes. Others stress pulse and rhyme as the most(prenominal) important part of poetry. Personally, poetry can be about anything and have no clear definition to it. Emily Dickinsons euphony Success is Counted Sweetest has rhythm and rhyme, metaphors and similes. In Morrisons novel Sula, the scene where Hannah dies also has poetic elements.In the poem Success is Counted Sweetest the speaker states that those who neer succeed (2) authority the highest value on success they count it sweetest. In order to fancy the richness of this, the speaker states one must feel sorest need. (4). Dickinson states that the members of the victorious the States The purple host/Who took the flag today (5-6) are not fitting to label victory as well as the defeated or expiry man who hear s from a distance the music of the victors. People carry to desire things more intensely when they do not have them. This poem goes to show that Dickinson is pretty aware of the complicated truths of human desire. Dickinson switches roles and speaks on behalf of the dying man, who hears the victorious celebrating. To the dying man, defeat meant that he had lost everything. This poem causes the reader to think about what success and failure are truly about. To the dying man on the field of battle, barely living would have been a priceless success. Instead, the men celebrating victory are those who won the war. Dickinson uses each verse to relate a different perspective of success and need. In the first, she introduces how those who tenacious for something they never have achieve a greater thrill of deed than somebody who had the same thing the deprived sought for all along. In the second verse, Dickinson discusses the victorious soldiers who acquired something apparently neither h ere nor there to their existence. This pattern is associated in the final verse when the tragedy and yearning of the wounded is revealed. In Morrisons Sula the death of Hannah is very poetic. To begin with, Hannah takes a quite a little and dreams of a red bridal gown. She tells Eva about it, but Eva is too confuse by Sulas adolescent behavior to think such(prenominal) about it.