I taste a liquor never brewed

I taste a liquor never brewed by Emily Dickinson is an extended metaphor in which the speaker is comparing an appreciation for nature and summer with alcohol intoxication. It is made clear that the speaker is talkng of large consumption and intake of nature's beauty with the diction used "air, sun, summer days." The speaker gives figuative meaning to lines such as "inns of molten blue," to refer to the bright blue summer sky. This soaking in of the sun, done by the speaker, enjoying nature's blessings, cannot restrain himself from more and more admiration. "I shall but drink the more,"(Dickinson, line 12, pg 797)! While others become disinterested with nature after some time, the speaker admires all the more, that which the heavens praise. "Till seraphs swing their snowy Hats and Saints to windows run to see the little Tippler,"(Dickinson, lines 13-15, pg 797). The poem depicts a prasing and cheerful attitude and reaction from the seraphs and saints, one that would not be expected or likely if the poem was refering to alcohol intoxication.