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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 ...
Dickinson uses iambic meter throughout the poem to replicate that of "Hope's song through time". [5] 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 ...
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]
The poem's three unemotional quatrains are written in iambic trimeter with only line 5 in iambic tetrameter. Lines 1 and 3 (and others) end with extra syllables. The rhyme scheme is abcb. The poem's "success" theme is treated paradoxically: Only those who know defeat can truly appreciate success. Alliteration enhances the poem's lyricism.
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]
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