Drunk by Nature

I taste a liquor never brewed by Emily Dickinson features an extended metaphor comprised of elaborate diction and imagery. Her metaphor compares her love of nature to being drunk. Nature fills her with such a joy that it is only comparable to being drunk. Her imagery reveals several scenes of nature. Pearls as clouds, the Rhine river, air, dew, molten blue, endless summer days, bee, butterflies, snowy hats, and the sun all suggest nature. Her diction reveals how she compares nature to alcohol. tankards are filled with pearls. The speaker has become an "Inebriate of Air. . . And Debauchee of Dew" (Dickinson, 797). Bees are drunk and butterflies stop drinking their drams. In the last stanza presents an image that God approves of this drunkenness. Seraphs and Saints run to the window to watch and not to judge, while the speaker leans on the sun, rather than a lamppost.