I taste a liquor never brewed

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"I taste a liquor never brewed" is a lyric poem by Emily Dickinson that exuberantly celebrates the intoxicating beauty of nature through extended metaphor.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf lyric poem
poem
associatedWithAuthor Emily Dickinson’s nature poems
author Emily Dickinson
celebrates emotional intensity
the natural world
comparesNatureTo alcoholic drink
liquor
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
creator Emily Dickinson
expresses freedom from conventional restraint
joy
rapture
firstLine I taste a liquor never brewed
form short lyric
genre lyric poetry
hasSpeaker lyric I
imagerySourceDomain alcohol
drunkenness
imageryTargetDomain nature
spiritual joy
language English
literaryMovement American poetry
meter common meter
narrativePerspective first person
period 19th century
poeticTradition American Romanticism
Transcendentalist-influenced poetry
rhymeScheme alternating rhyme
subjectMatter ecstatic experience
the beauty of nature
theme imagination
intoxication
nature
spiritual ecstasy
transcendence
tone celebratory
exuberant
usesLiteraryDevice extended metaphor
hyperbole
imagery
personification

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Emily Dickinson notableWork I taste a liquor never brewed