"I Taste A Liquor Never Brewed"
Analysis of Emily Dickinson's "I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed"
Emily Dickinson. What comes to mind from her name? Having written nearly 1,800 poems, she was a very prolific poet and, as some consider, "a poet of dread" (Melani). Was she all that dreadful? Death is a major topic in many of her poems but I think she had a very keen sense of life as well. In Dickinson's poem, "I taste a liquor never brewed," she uses metaphor, symbolism and imagery to articulate her appreciation of nature.
The theme of Emily Dickinson's "I taste a liquor never brewed" can be interpreted in several ways. Some have suggested that the "I" in the poem stands for a "hummingbird which [Dickinson] imagines to be telling about its drunken spree" (Eby 517). My interpretation of the poem is that the "I" is Dickinson herself. This gives the poem a more personal, symbolic meaning. She compares her enjoyment and pleasure from nature to that of being intoxicated.
She gets a natural high as opposed to an......
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