A Taste of Liquor never Brewed

Yay Emily Dickinson and her capitalized nouns. Throws me off everytime.
This poem talked a lot about liquor in nature. The "molten blue" sounded like a bar to me. I also thought it could have been a symbol for the sky though. This poem talks a lot about someone being corrupted and a force (alcohol) driving it. I learned that debauchee meant to ply with drink. Emily compares the alcohol with something very valuable, a pearl. The liquor that she refers to is a metaphor of the beauty of nature. She really appreciates nature and sees great value in it. The imagery and metaphor of liquor as nature acheives the powerful tone of this poem. It shows the joyfulness of her appreciation of nature. This really does not seem like the type of poem that Emily would write. She hates joy.