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Emily Dickinson's 'I Taste A Liquor Never Brewed'
Bob Joyce
Ms. Johnson
Sophomore Honors English
30 January 2012 Drunk on Nature Emily Dickinson’s poem, “I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed”, is a joyful and lighthearted poem. In the poem, Dickinson continuously compares the effect nature has on her to the effect alcohol has on her. Throughout the poem, Dickinson uses being “drunk” as a metaphor for how exciting and intoxicating nature is to her. This poem also indicated how Dickinson had some transcendentalist beliefs even though her family was of Puritan descent. Dickinson tells the reader in the very first line that she is not talking about alcohol. The first line is, “I taste liquor never brewed” (1).
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