- According to the speaker, who is likely to count success as sweetest? Do you think the poet is accurate in describing the feelings of people who fail?
- Purple is a color associated with blood shed in battle (the Purple Heart medal is given to soldiers wounded or killed in action). It is also a color associated with royalty and nobility. What do you think is the “purple Host” in line 5?
- Whose ear is mentioned in line 10? Why is the ear “forbidden”?
- Describe the image you see in the last stanza. How could this image be extended to refer to other situations in life? Explain.
- Have you ever been like the soldier in the last stanza – in agony because someone else is proclaimed the winner? What other circumstances in life (other than a wartime battle) could this situation be applied to? (Could it describe the feelings of a poet who could not publish her work?)
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Questions for "Success is counted Sweetest"
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it was engaging and good
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