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Her poem was written in 1904 for a contest held in Brown Book Magazine, [5] by George Livingston Richards Co. of Boston, Massachusetts [2] Mrs. Stanley submitted the words in the form of an essay, rather than as a poem. The competition was to answer the question "What is success?" in 100 words or less. Mrs. Stanley won the first prize of $250. [6]
The poem's three unemotional quatrains are written in iambic trimeter with only line 5 in iambic tetrameter. Lines 1 and 3 (and others) end with extra syllables. The rhyme scheme is abcb. The poem's "success" theme is treated paradoxically: Only those who know defeat can truly appreciate success. Alliteration enhances the poem's lyricism.
The phrase is an abridged form [3] of the 1904 poem "Success" by Bessie Anderson Stanley which begins: He achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much This phrase was subsequently popularized by Ann Landers [ failed verification ] and a 1990 Dear Abby column, where it was misattributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson .
Twitter user Ronnie Joyce came across the poem above on the wall of a bar in London, England. While at first the text seems dreary and depressing, the poem actually has a really beautiful message.
Arnold Adoff (July 16, 1935, in Bronx, New York – May 7, 2021, in Yellow Springs, Ohio) was an American children's writer.In 1988, the National Council of Teachers of English gave Adoff the Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children.
When a poem is flooded with too much emotion, it becomes sentimental, even cheesy; but when a poem risks nothing, it leaves a reader cold. The best love poems enact the hyperaware state of being ...
The use of poetry can also be seen as an exercise in self-aggrandisement, as poetry's constraints often force judges to employ deficient and incomplete legal reasoning. [15] Judge Richard Posner wrote that while poetry may effectively summarise a dispute and the legal rationale for a decision, two different poems—unlike two separate pieces of ...
The Foundation of S.F. Success" is a 1954 pastiche by American writer Isaac Asimov, of the patter song "If you're anxious for to shine" from the Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera Patience, describing the easy way to become a successful writer.