How long will the poet continue drinking the alcohol or nectar from Nature NU Or How does the poet express her enthusiasm for drinking the alcohol of the beauties of Nature NU Emily Dickinson s - poem I taste a liquor never brewed is about the poet s deep joy in nature Dickinson imagines that the beauty of the natural world is like a strong liquor alcohol that no one has ever made She becomes drunk on the air the dew and the summer sky She says she will continue drinking the nectar from nature long after the bees and butterflies are already tired Drinking Long After Bees and Butterflies The poet says she is Inebriate of air And Debauchee of Dew This means she is drunk on the pure air and the morning dew The bees or butterflies drink from the flower s nectar for a short time and