This poem has ABCB rhyme scheme and four quatrains. It's a somewhat complicated poem in it's wording and references, but I think the basic message is pretty simple: the speaker is really just drunk off life. She is tasting this liqour which is never brewed. Life is clearly the liqour. It is the air which inebriates her, the dew which makes her drunk, the summer days through which we see her (or him, i'm not supposed to assume the sex of the speaker, so sorry) reeling, stumbling. The insects she describes get drunk off nature and life just as she does. The foxglove contains a drug. We see a very positive image at the end. Angels and saints watch as she, a change in tense here, lives fully. The explanation point really pulls of the enthusiasm of the image.
Finally, it interests me the number of European references. I wonder why so many, for an American. Rhine of course is a European river. Seraphs were medieval angels, and the foxglove is a european flower, I believe.
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This poem has ABCB rhyme scheme and four quatrains. It's a somewhat complicated poem in it's wording and references, but I think the basic message is pretty simple: the speaker is really just drunk off life. She is tasting this liqour which is never brewed. Life is clearly the liqour. It is the air which inebriates her, the dew which makes her drunk, the summer days through which we see her (or him, i'm not supposed to assume the sex of the speaker, so sorry) reeling, stumbling. The insects she describes get drunk off nature and life just as she does. The foxglove contains a drug. We see a very positive image at the end. Angels and saints watch as she, a change in tense here, lives fully. The explanation point really pulls of the enthusiasm of the image.
Finally, it interests me the number of European references. I wonder why so many, for an American. Rhine of course is a European river. Seraphs were medieval angels, and the foxglove is a european flower, I believe.
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