I taste a liquor never brewed— (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
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The Poem
Emily Dickinson did not give titles to most of her poems, so they are generally referred to by their first lines. The editor of the 1955 edition of her poems, Thomas H. Johnson, attempted to number them according to the order of their composition; “I taste a liquor never brewed—” is listed as number 214. Dickinson sometimes left alternate versions of her poems, and the version discussed here is what Johnson believed to be her final one.
“I taste a liquor never brewed—” consists of four stanzas, the second and fourth lines rhyming in each quatrain....
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