Question: How long will the poet continue drinking alcohol or nectar from nature? I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed
Introduction
“I taste a liquor never brewed” is one of the few poems published in 1861 in Dickinson’s lifetime. In this poem, the speaker has expressed the mystic concept of drinking.
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The duration of drinking
Emily Dickinson’s “I taste a liquor never brewed” is about being completely drunk and life. On a glorious summer day, the speaker of the poem imagines drinking so deeply and joyfully in the beauty of nature that even angels rush to their windows to see the speaker’s happy impish.
The poet has also told that gaining the everlasting life of human beings is a haunting reality. Because human beings devote their life to money, wealth, and power. This picture is the reflection of the contemporary time of Dickinson when America was corrupted, drug-addicted, unsocial, and attracted by sexual abuse. But they could get immortality through the closest relation with nature. Because nature is the only way to reach to god in this corrupted world. Their persuasion after worldly things is called haunting reality.
Conclusion
An ordinary day has become exalted through the nature-drunkenness of the speaker, and the heavenly creatures have become the neighbors next to the speaker. So, till the time of purification, the nectar will be drunk.
