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I bring an unaccustomed wine (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)

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The Poem

Typical of Emily Dickinson’s terse, succinct poems that have a way of exploding with meaning, “I bring an unaccustomed wine” delivers its impact in twenty-two lines divided into seven stanzas, the first of four lines, the subsequent ones of three lines each. Dickinson frequently uses alcoholic metaphors—wine, beer, liquor—in her poems, not to celebrate drinking but to convey cryptic messages to her readers. In her poem “I taste a liquor never brewed,” for example, the liquor she refers to is honey, liquor to the bees that gather the pollen to make...

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