Emily Dickinson 'I Taste A Liquor Never Brewed'

Emily Dickinson does not seem like she would have a lot to do with the act of drinking and getting drunk. Yet, when we read, “I taste a liquor never brewed”, you would think the person speaking has a close relationship with the bottle. I do believe that like most of her works, Dickinson is using something to mask the meaning of her relationship with nature and how she feels when interacting with it. In this case, it is the act of getting drunk in relation to her love with nature. In the first line we get a picture of liquor being brewed but also one that has never been brewed before. I think there is a lot of meaning in this one line that relates to whether the narrator actually knows what they are talking about. I know from watching show …show more content…
Tankards are usually related with beer and these are made of peal. This makes us think that this tankard is something amazing and unusual to the common beer cup. Then we are given an image of the finest wine made of “Frankfort berries”. These relations are entwined with Dickinson’s intoxication with nature. In the second stanza we make connections with the intense feelings being caused by the air and dew. The endless summer days give our narrator an intense feeling of exhilaration that tops no other sensation. These summer days are accompanied with molten blue skies where they stay to revel in this drunken state of bliss. When we get to the third stanza we see a turn of drunkenness. Instead of the narrator being overindulged, nature is in fact benefitting more than her from this beauty. Both bees and butterfly’s drink from their flower of choice, yet in this stanza they are not able to for some reason and are turned away. We see that the “Landlords” of these flowers, or nature draw this obstacle? The question is, who are the Landlords that Dickinson is referring to, when saying they are the ones turning the bees and butterflies away. I believe the evidence can be found in the next line, what the narrator states she will “drink the more” after they are turned away. The narrator does in fact, benefit from nature being forced to neglect nature. This opens up a different type of nature. The nature of greed in the World, is present when the Landlord takes and is replenished from the nature they stole. This consumption and greed of drinking the flowers in relation to their drink of the liquor, gives way to the addiction of both