An Annotation of Emily Dickinsons I Taste A Liquor Never...

An Annotation of Emily Dickinsons I Taste A Liquor Never Brewed This poem by Emily Dickinson is much harder to figure out compared to her usual poems. She writes about a topic that is not normally written about at this time especially by a woman. At first glance, it is thought that this poem is about liquor and all of the bad things that go along with it, when in all reality it is a poem about sheer happiness. Dickinson is speaking not of a high derived from any alcoholic beverage, but rather of one acquired from life itself. I taste a liquor never brewed (214) Emily Dickinson I taste a liquor never brewed-- From tankards scooped in Pearl-- Not all the Vats upon the Rhine Yield such an Alcohol! Inebriate of Air--am I--†¦show more content†¦In the third and forth line she goes on to describe the vastness that this drink gives to her. She uses the reference to the vats upon the Rhine to indicate this vastness. The Rhine Valley is a city in Germany that is Europes northernmost wine producing region. They used to store the majority of the wine that they produced in big barrels that were known as vats. Dickinson is trying to say here that even though some of the worlds best alcohol is produced and stored here it doesnt even compare to the magnificence that life beholds. The second stanza starts to move in quite a different direction. Dickinson now is referring to how she gets drunk off of simple pleasures in life such as air and dew. These things excite and exhilarate her to make her feel as if she is drunk. The mention of Reeling endash; thro endless summer days, is another example of how the natural things in life such as a bright summer day can really enliven her to the point of feeling intoxicated. Dickinson starts to take a different approach in the third stanza by showing how every being has their own unique drink that gets them drunk. She says, that the bees are drunk off of the Foxgloves, which are flowers that they get satisfied from. She also talks about the butterflies and how their alcohol is the drams that they drink. Although these are all ways that other animals get drunk off life