Emily Dickinson I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed
...iquor, this is definitely not a poem about any form of chemical intoxication. It is an expression of the author’s love for a “drunken state,” created by how wonderful she believes life to be. Her poetry was often not clearly understood. The genuine depth of Emily Dickinson’s affection for life was realized more in the second line. Here she wrote “From Tankards scooped in Pearl,” indicating special beer drinking glasses, outfitted in pearl rather than in ceramic or in clay. According to the research that we have done, these were used during her time to drink in a more exquisite, fashion. In other words, she is not celebrating or describing her intoxication from life, but she is describing life in which she celebrates life with the finest cups from which to drink it. Emily Dickinson describes the great feeling that this drink gives to her in the third and forth line. She refers to the “Vats upon the Rhine” to indicate thin wind producing region. The “Rhine” Valley is a city in Germany that is Europe’s northernmost wine producing region. Big barrels that were known as the “Vats” was used to store most of the wine that was produced. The thing that I got out of these lines is that even though some of the world’s best alcohol is produce there, it doesn’t compare to greatness that life beholds. The second stanza starts to move in quite a different direction. In this stanza she writes about how she gets drunk of so simple things such as air and the morning dew. These things excite and invigorate her to make her feel drunk. As third stanza begins, Emily starts to take a different approach by showing how every person or thing has there own special drink that gets them drunk. In her poem she says that bees get drunk off of the “Foxgloves” which I have discovered to be flowers that they get satisfaction from. She also talks about the butterflies and how their “alcohol” is the “drams” that they drink. I interpret th...