Thursday, September 16, 2010
Darwin Award
In Emily Dickinson's I taste a liquor never brewed, Dickinson fails to capitalize the title of her poem but instead capitalizes everything else. This upsets me. Anyways, it seems to me in this poem that the speaker is getting high on life. Self-described in the passage as an "Inebriate of Air" [line 5] and stating that "Not all the Vats upon the Rhine/ Yield such an Alcohol!" [lines 3-4], the speaker "shall but drink the more!" [line 12] There is an extended metaphor in this poem, though I'm not sure what it is. To be honest I just really want to talk about this one in class (and we probably will tomorrow). I'm not afraid to admit that I'm finding this week's poems much harder to analyze than the previous chapter's. And after this last poem, I can't say I like Emily Dickinson anymore than before.
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