"I taste a liquor never brewed-"
Both of the Emily Dickinson poems we have read in class have had the title and the first line of the poem be the same text. I'm not sure how significant that is, but just an observation I noticed. This poem is a very deep and strange poem, similar to "I felt a funeral, in my Brain." The peom is a quatrain poem with four stanzas. The poem has sixteen hyphens, some lines with none, some with a hyphen at the end of the line, and some with two hyphens. I'm very curious to find the meaning behind all of the hyphens. In this poem, the speaker is having a feeling of intoxication, but not from alcohol, hence "never brewed." The things around her are making her drunk, such as the "Air," "Dew," and "summer days." I'm not sure what the "Bee" and "Butterflies" are referring to in stanza three, and I'm still trying to figure out how she is getting drunk. Whatever she is "drinking," she is never going to stop drinking it.
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