Poet Research- Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson is one of the greatest American woman poets of all time. Her works are known for the wise use of language, the variety of themes, and many other aspects. Dickinson’s family background, her seclusion experience and the literary movement she was in enrich readers’ understanding of the poem “I taste a liquor never brewed”. Dickinson’s family background enriches the readers’ understanding of the theme – nature. Based on information from Poetryfoundation.org, Dickinson was born in a decent, upper-class family, with father working as a lawyer and a politician and mother working as a science researcher (Poetryfoundation.org, para.2). However, the way she describes in the poem is not the behavior of a person from upper-class. For instance, she uses words like “inebriate” and “little Tippler” to describe the narrator’s drunkenness (l.5&l.15). It is not very proud for upper-class people to get drunk in public. Such a contrast between her background and her dictions leads the …show more content…
“By the 1860s, Dickinson lived in almost complete isolation from the outside world” (Poets.org). During that time, she “wandered over several acres of meadow, admired pines, oaks and elms, and helped tend the orchard” (Jabr, 2016). In the poem, “the drunken Bee/ Out of the Foxglove’s door” and “the Butterflies ...renounce... I shall but drink the more” can show Dickinson’s interaction and intimacy with nature. She is not merely expressing her admiration; instead, she is connecting herself with the nature. The similarity between the drunk narrator and the drunk insects enhances such interaction. Moreover, knowing that Dickinson is a romantic poet, readers can see her “reverence to nature” and “embrace for freedom” more clearly, and even think of other famous romantic poets such as W.B. Yeats. (Poets.org,