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Tuesday, September 19, 2017

I taste a liquor never brewed By Emily Dickinson


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poem: I taste a liquor never brewed – 
From Tankards scooped in Pearl – 
Not all the Frankfort Berries
Yield such an Alcohol!

Inebriate of air – am I  
And Debauchee of Dew  
Reeling – thro’ endless summer days 
From inns of molten Blue 

When “Landlords” turn the drunken Bee
Out of the Foxglove’s door 
When Butterflies – renounce their “drams” 
I shall but drink the more!

Till Seraphs swing their snowy Hats  
And Saints – to windows run  
To see the little Tippler
Leaning against the – Sun!

Theme: google 

The theme and important point of the poem is spiritual ecstasy (পরমানন্দ).The poet has expressed her spiritual ecstasy  through a cosmic metaphor :earthly and heavenly bodies have been implicitly compared to the different facets of her ecstasy .



Summery : 

"I taste a liquor never brewed" is a lyrical poem written by Emily Dickinson.The poem is about nature and how experiencing it is so wonderful and intoxicating that it's like being drunk.

One of the main themes of Dickinson’s poetry is the religious quest. She wanted to know with some certainty true answers to the questions that human beings repeatedly ask about the meaning of life: How did we come to be? Why are we here? What is our ultimate destiny? In her poems, she uses the poet’s tools, a powerful imagination and a command of language, to seek in her own experience the answers to these questions. 

In the first stanza, the poet imagines that she tastes a liquid which is never brewed by anybody in the world nor is it available on the earth .The meaning of the liquor symbolizes something else, nature. Vats are containers used to hold liquids and the Rhine is a river that runs through Germany, which is a country famous for making beers and other such beverages.

In the second stanza, she says that she has become drunk by consuming the air and the dew of summer days. This consumption has taken place in “inns of Molten Blue,” or under the hot summer sky.
She's breathing in the air and dew and reels through nice summer days. In the line, "From inns of molten blue" the word inns refers to a tavern (মদের দোকান) WINE SHOP and molten blue refers to the blue sky.

In the third stanza, she claims that her capacity for this liquor exceeds that of the most dedicated of summer’s drinkers, the bees and the butterflies: When they have ended drinking, she will continue. 

A bartender (মদের দোকানের পরিবেষক) kicks out a drunk like a bee leaves a foxglove (লতাবিশেষ) .It's  important to note that the foxglove is poisonous to humans. This as a reference to the fact that alcohol can be deadly, but others have said it's a reference to suicide.

The last image of the poem, which grows out of the central comparison between drunkenness and her experiences of the summer day, humorously conveys a spiritual expansion of the self. 

She will continue drinking (enjoying nature) until seraphs (which are the highest ranks of angels) and saints notice her, meaning she will enjoy nature until she has died.

Those who drink wine or alcohol get drunk if they take it beyond some limit.In their Drunken state they feel some sort of pleasure which not like the ordinary pleasure of the undrunken human being.The poet symbolically expresses her spiritual ecstasy ,perhaps her mystic union with god through her absorption in the beauties of nature .So all the objects mentioned here are merely the symbols of her spiritual ecstasy. By such an beers she means the natural objects like dew and air .She metaphorically express her intense love for nature... 




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