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"I taste a liquor never brewed" is a lyrical poem written by Emily Dickinson first published in the Springfield Daily Republican on May 4, 1861, from a now lost copy. [1] Although titled " The May-Wine " by the Republican , Dickinson never titled the poem so it is commonly referred to by its first line.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 2 February 2025. American poet (1830–1886) Emily Dickinson Daguerreotype taken at Mount Holyoke, December 1846 or early 1847; the only authenticated portrait of Dickinson after early childhood Born (1830-12-10) December 10, 1830 Amherst, Massachusetts, U.S. Died May 15, 1886 (1886-05-15) (aged 55 ...
Most of Dickinson's poetry contains quatrains and runs in a hymnal meter, which maintains the rhythm of alternating between four beats and three beats during each stanza. [5] "'Hope' is the thing with feathers" is broken into three stanzas, each containing alternating lines of iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter, totaling 12 lines.
English: Manuscript copy of Emily Dickinson poem I taste a liquor never brewed. The source image was straightened and cropped of its black border. The source image was straightened and cropped of its black border.
Donald E. Thackrey referred to "There's a certain Slant of light" as one of Dickinson's best lyric poems for its force of emotion but resistance to definitive statements on meaning. [14] He likened it to Keats's "Ode to Melancholy," claiming that although it is less specific, it transmits the experience of the emotion just as effectively. [14]
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The poem was published posthumously in Poems, Second Series, 1891. Dickinson's posthumous editor Thomas Wentworth Higginson thought the poem was too erotic for a woman he deemed pure and was initially reluctant to print the poem, "lest the malignant read into it more than that virgin recluse ever dream of putting there". [3]
It is made by distilling a chhaang, a brewed alcoholic drink. [3] The Limbus and Kirati people, for whom it is a traditional beverage, [4] drink tongba and raksi served with pieces of pork, water buffalo or goat meat sekuwa. [5] For the Newars, aila is indispensable during festivals and various religious rituals as libation, prasad or sagan.