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I Do Not Know

lkasjdf klasjfd lkasjdfl k;asjdfl;kjDickinson uses metaphors, or comparisons, to establish the theme. The first line that is also used as the title, "I taste a liquor never brewed," has a metaphor that one can only understand if the theme is known. Her liquor that is never brewed is nature. She is tasting nature in a sense. Dickinson continues the theme of drunkenness in the second stanza: "Inebriate of air am I / And debauchee of dew" (5-6). She is comparing her feeling for nature to being drunk by saying that the air and dew literally cause intoxication. Another example of metaphor is "Reeling, through endless summer days" (Dickinson 7). She is reeling, or staggering, like an intoxicated person from the "endless summer days" instead of an alcohol. The third stanza has a metaphor: "When landlords turn the drunken bee / Out of the...Dickinson uses metaphors, or comparisons, to establish the theme. The first line that is also used as the title, "I taste a liquor never brewed," has a......


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