Saturday, November 12, 2016
I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed by Dickinson
  Emily Dickinsons poem I taste  pot liquor  neer brewed, is a comparison  among the simplistic beauties of nature that is so powerful that it has an intoxicating  frame that she compares to alcoholic beverage. She is expressing her feeling or the  hullabaloo that she  packs from the beauty of nature. To that of a  individual being  sot. In her  rise lines, she says, I taste a liquor never brewed. In my opinion, she is saying the liquor thats never brewed is the beauty because it gives her the  a homogeneous feeling that someone would get if they had drunk alcohol. Its so overwhelming to her it makes her dizzy, like a form of drunkenness. In the  following(a) lines, she compares the feeling to be as potent as every mixture of alcohol or strong drink. As she quotes From tankards scooped in pearl; not  altogether the vats upon the Rhine Yield such an alcohol!\nThe line Inebriate of  oxygenize am I, (Dickerson) The poet can be understood as saying, I am not drunk from alcohol but from the    air, I feel carefree and  wise from the dew on the ground, nature in its splendor is so  wondrous the poet reflects on  with turn up end  summer  mean solar days where the clouds are like resting place she refers to as inns of  liquefied blue. The comparison brings to mind a beautiful summer day spent lying on the grass looking up at the sky of endless blue clouds, which appear so soft and fluffy they  may be melted together.\nDickerson uses  embodiment when she calls the bee drunken and the bee hive a landlord, When landlords turn the drunken bee out the foxgloves door. (Dickerson) Another reference to liquor in the form of  embodiment is when she states When butterflies renounce their drams [which is a  standard for whiskey or scotch.] (Web, google.com)\n passim the balance of the poem Emily Dickerson uses alliterations and metaphors an  recitation is Seraphs swing their snowy hats A Seraph is defined as an saintly being, regarded in traditional Christian angelology as belonging    to th...   
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