In "I taste a liquor never brewed", the line of imagery is easily followed. By this, I do not mean that I understood what the imagery was pointing to. What I mean is that, unlike some poems (cough "Pink Dog" cough) the images and comparisons made in this poem all clearly originate from the same source. All the words used to describe the way the speaker felt, the way the speaker got 'drunk' all originated from a spiritual, heavenly interpretation of nature.
Some of the nouns used in this poem that stand out (particularly because they are capitalized) are: Tankards, Rhine, Air, Dew, Molten Blue, Foxglove, Butterflies, Seraphs, Saints, and Sun. All these words have a reverent, worshipful connotation in the context of the poem. The way the speaker viewed the world around her was in almost faithfully religious love. In the second stanza, the comparison between alcohol and dew, alcohol and the molten blue of the sea, were especially effective. The unification and sweet reverence the speaker used in the imagery of her/his poem were effective in translating the intoxication message.
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