Emily Dickinson’s poem “I taste liquor never brewed”, is a comparison between the simplistic beauties of nature that is so powerful that it has an intoxicating effect that she compares to alcohol. She is expressing her feeling or the exhilaration that she gets from the beauty of nature. To that of a person being drunk. In her opening lines, she says, “I taste a liquor never brewed.” In my opinion, she is saying the liquor that’s never brewed is the beauty because it gives her the same feeling that someone would get if they had drunk alcohol. It’s so overwhelming to her it makes her dizzy, like a form of drunkenness. In the next lines, she compares the feeling to be as potent as any mixture of alcohol or strong drink. As she quotes “From tankards scooped in pearl; not all the vats upon the Rhine Yield such an alcohol!” The line "Inebriate of air am I," (Dickerson) The poet can be understood as saying, I am not drunk from alcohol but from the air, I feel carefree and reckless from the dew on the ground, nature in its splendor is so wonderful the poet reflects on endless summer days where the clouds are like resting place she refers to as "inns of molten blue." The comparison brings to mind a beautiful summer day spent lying on the grass looking up at the sky of endless blue clouds, which appear so soft and fluffy they may be melted together. Dickerson uses personification when she calls the bee drunken and the bee hive a landlord, "When landlords turn the drunken bee out the foxglove's door." (Dickerson) Another reference to liquor in the form of personification is when she states "When butterflies renounce their drams [which is a measurement for whiskey or scotch.] (Web, google.com) Throughout the balance of the poem Emily Dickerson uses alliterations and metaphors an example is "Seraphs swing their snowy hats" A Seraph is defined as "an angelic being, regarded in traditional Christian angelology as belonging to th