Emily Dickinson I Taste A Liquor Never Brewed Analysis

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Emily Dickinson Archive or EDA is an open access website for the manuscripts of Emily Dickinson. The purpose of this website is to serve as the central place for Dickinson’s manuscripts, poems, and letters. The long term goal of this website is to be the premiere archive host for access to serving Dickinson manuscripts, letters, and modern and historical editors of poems and letters. The funding for this archive has been provided by the Harvard Library, The Sidney Verba Fund, The Houghton Library, and the Harvard University Press. Some of the institutions that contribute to this archive are the Boston Public Library, Amherst College, Library of Congress and the Yale University Library. The primary audience of this archive are scholars especially …show more content…
In her genre, poetry, she had various themes and subject matters which revolved around nature, success, mental health, and death. The examples of her work which included such themes and subject matter, which you can find on the website, include but are not limited to “I taste a liquor never brewed,” “Success is counted sweetest,” “I felt a Funeral,in my Brain” and “Because I could not stop for Death.”
One of the preserved texts in the archive is titled “I taste a liquor never brewed.” In this poem Dickinson uses being drunk and alcohol as metaphors to rave about the quality of nature. The poem has four stanzas and Dickinson makes use of diction and imagery to paint a vivid picture of what she is talking about which connects with the audience. She uses words like “air” and “dew” which helps paint a picture of the setting of the poem. Throughout the poem she uses her intoxication with mother earth as a way to connect with the higher power. Dickinson rarely titled her poems because she didn’t plan on her working being published when she was alive therefore the title of this poem comes from the first line of the poem. The poem “Because I could
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If I wanted to browse for manuscripts the search options are set to where you can only browse for her work by first lines, date, recipients, or edition and because many of Dickinson’s poems aren’t titled or popular it would be hard for me to find out all of her work at once. I also think since the manuscript images are separated by library collections it would be confusing to someone who isn’t looking for a specific work by Dickinson and wants something general. I think for the general public the website would be very ineffective but for their audience, scholars, the website would be of good use. The website is geared towards specificity therefore it would be a huge benefit to a scholar of her writings but may pose a problem to someone who is only interested in her general works. I think it does a great job in preserving texts and because of their affiliations and contributions the website comes off as credible. I think the website could improve if they made a list of some of her critically acclaimed and popular work to get the general public interested in her work then focus on specific editions of her work. I also think that the website has a very basic template and would improve if the colors they used were brighter and more attention grabbing. They could also improve the website by providing the audience with video and audio content about her and have the

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