Critical Analysis of Emily Dickinsons My Triumph Lasted Till the Drums

English 1102 2/20/13 A Characterization of the Narrator in My merriment Lasted Till the Drums The speaker in Emily Dickensons My run Lasted Till the Drums is real torn between rejoicing in the conquest in the battlefield, and the affliction they feel for the battles losers. The narrator feels pride at first, as shown in boundary 1 and the titles put on of the word Triumph stock-still that pride quickly turns into regret and disdain.The narrator laments what they feel be diminished acts of war and their deep regret turns into wishing the roles were reversed and they had died. In My Triumph Lasted Till the Drums the narrator describes the triumphant jot at the end of a victorious battle. My Triumph means that the speaker recognizes that at that place was a supremacy and that they ar on the side of the victors whom should feel jubilant in victory. The use of the word Triumph shows that the speaker is aware that there is a bang-up sense of pride to be had in winning a batt le.This touch, however, is truly short lived. The speakers Triumph lasted only till the drums/and then I dropped my victory as noted in mental strains 3 and 4. These lines show the speakers a grieve and caring person who feels remorse immediately after the triumphant feeling subsides. The speaker in My Triumph is an average person who is thrust into battle, emerges victorious, and sees that there is more defeat in victory than they realized.The narrator sees the reality of a cruel battle and the loss of lives and realizes that though they are victorious, the defeated are all dead. This deeply troubles our speaker as evidenced in line 15 and 16 where the speaker says A Bayonets repentance/Is nothing to the Dead. In this line the speaker is saying that the regret held by the bayonet and the hands guiding it means nothing to the dead opus at the other end of the blade. This regret shows a person who whitethorn have enlisted, but now know that the brutality of war is not for them . And then I hated Glory/And wished myself were They, lines 7 and 8, show but the conviction with which our speaker hates war. They wish themselves dead and that the defeated had been the victors. The narrator in the poem is a remorseful soldier looking upon the dead bodies of their enemies in combat. There is a great feeling of pride, but it is followed by the feeling of sorrow for the dead combatants. The speakers feelings are that the Tyrannies of Men are unnecessary truths of war.