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!
埃米麗·迪金森：
美國女詩人埃米麗·迪金森的自然觀與她的社會、家庭以及個人閱歷有着極其密切的聯繫。她詩歌中所描繪的自然既反映出愛默生的超驗主義思想 ,又不時地唱出與清教主義旋律相近的曲調。她熱愛大自然 ,但又夾雜着疑惑和恐懼。她的複雜的心理因素構成了她的複雜的自然觀。
