Kinsella

Emily Dickinson is a superb poet, who's original and powerful poetry is marked by startling and thought-provoking moments, defining her poetry. Through Dickinson’s detailed description of moments of utter happiness, as in 'I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed.' We see moments of depression and drastic desperation in 'I Felt a Funeral in My Brain,' and 'I Heard a Fly Buzz – When I Died.' These titles give evidence of startling, profound moments which are startling and provoke thought in the readers mind. Dickinson's poetry is extremely diverse and deals with many themes of human nature.

We appriciate mesmorising moments of ecstacy in 'I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed,' in which Dickinson uses delightful extended metaphores to exclaim her love of life. "Inebriate of Air - am I - And Debauchee of Dew -" Dickinson's abstractions are often rendered vividly and imaginatively in her work. On one level, the piece can be understood as a piece on nature's entertaining characters such as the 'drunken Bee,' and 'Butterflies,' However it becomes clear that Dickinson is instead communicating her intoxication, brought on by a joyous appriciation of life. "When Butterflies - renounce their 'drams' - I shall but drink the more!" The poet can outdo the butterfly and bee in their joy. She will "Tipple" away until death: "Till Seraphs swing their snowy Hats - " In ‘I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed’, shows Dickinson’s celebration of the splendours of the natural world: the birds, bees, butterflies and flowers that gratify us with ‘endless summer days.’ Through the use of metaphors she exclaims her love of life and nature.