Please help me understand this emily dickinson poem...I have to analyze it for english class?

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 today

Can tell the definition

So clear of Victory

As he defeated--dying--

On whose forbidden ear

The distant strains of triumph

Burst agonized and clear!

I understand that the first stanza is told through the view of someone who never succeeds and the second stanza is about people who always succeed. But I dont understand the third stanza. what do you think it means?

Please help me understand this emily dickinson poem...I have to analyze it for english class?computers

like maybe idk i know what it means but i cant put it into words.

Please help me understand this emily dickinson poem...I have to analyze it for english class?hijack this

Alas, your understanding of the first two stanzas is flawed. It has nothing to do with success and everything to do with war. Basically, the survivors in this battle can't feel the same depths of emotion over the win as the soldier who knows he's dying and realizes his death contributed to the victory.
First stanza:Success is cherished more by those who don't succeed, than those who do. The second and third stanzas are meant to be read together, pretend there isn't a break between 'Victory' and 'As'. Makes more sense now? It's all part of the same thought as the first stanza. The victors are pleased, but they don't appreciate what it means as the loser, dying in the dust. He can hear them, laughing and triumphant, maybe as they march on his home.