A Natural High

Emily Dickinson expresses a love of nature in her poem I taste a liquor never brewed.  She begins by saying that she is enjoying an alcoholic beverage that has never been brewed.  She goes on to say "not all the vats upon the Rhine yield such an Alcohol!" (Dickinson, 797).  She now claims that her special drink is better than any beverage that could be produced by a brewery.  She later explains that she is actually drunk on the strong beauty of nature.  She uses many alcoholic references throughout the poem, while pairing them with natural things, like the air and morning dew.  This reveals that she has a strong connection to the outdoors.  She believes that the beauty of nature is stronger than anything man could produce.  She further states that she doesn't care if she is drunk on nature, she desires to continue to enjoy it.  She shows how strongly she loves nature by saying that even when nature is done being happy, she will continue to admire its beauty.