The speaker of this poem describes herself as an "inebriate of air" and "debauchee of dew," and claims that "not all the vats upon the Rhine yield such an alcohol."
In The Poetics of Mind, R. W. Gibbs says that this poem is an embellishment of the conceptual metaphor of love as a nutrient, quoting a version of this poem whose last line is "from manzanilla come." The second stanza of this poem describes the sky as "molten" and mentions "reeling through endless summer days." The final stanza of this poem describes "seraphs swing[ing] their snowy hats" and saints running to windows to see the speaker "leaning against the Sun." It also describes how the speaker will not be dissuaded "when landlords turn the drunken bee out of the foxglove's door" or "when butterflies renounce their drams." The speaker of this poem describes herself as an "inebriate of air" and "debauchee of dew," and claims that "not all the vats upon the Rhine yield such an alcohol." For 10 points, name this Emily Dickinson poem about a spiritual intoxication.
In The Poetics of Mind, R. W. Gibbs says that this poem is an embellishment of the conceptual metaphor of love as a nutrient, quoting a version of this poem whose last line is "from manzanilla come.
"I taste a liquor never brewed" [accept 214]