I taste a liquor never brewed

This was another poem my small group was a little confused on. We said that the author is talking about clouds. She uses words such as, "sun", "air", and "dew". These words stress that she is talking about nature. Our understanding of clouds comes in by the fact that the rain and the water represent the liquor. The clouds store all the moisture in them. Also, when the poem says the "little Tippler leaning against the -sun-", we were not really understanding. In question number 4 on the bottom of the page, it says what do comic drunks lean against in the street? Drunks lean against sidings of walls, stand, and anything that will not move. By showing the drunk leaning on the sun, it shows that the sun is never moving and it will always be there to keep us up. Emily Dickinson has a very distinct way of writing poetry. The other poems we read by her were very dark. However, this one seems to have a much lighter tone and meaning.