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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