"I taste a liquor never brewed" by Emily Dickinson: Figurative Meanings

          "I taste a liquor never brewed" by Emily Dickinson uses the technique of extended metaphor and other figurative language.  In the last stanza Dickinson creates a stereotypical scene.  This scene is of neighbors observing the behavior of a drunkard.  It also depicts a drunkard leaning against a lamp post.  Because of the extended metaphor the speaker is not drunk off of alcohol.  The speaker is drunk off of nature.  So the drunkard is not leaning on a post.  They are actually "leaning against the-- Sun," (Dickinson, 797).  Also, the angels watch the speaker frolic in the nature instead of the neighbors and drunkard.  This creates a tone of happiness because of the descriptions of nature.