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inebriate of air
Date of Review: Jan 16, 2000
Dickinson's poetry is some of the best poetry ever written. She writes that "this is the tale that nature told/that never wrote to me" as if what she writes is in tune with nature. She also says "Robin is my criterion for tune" as if she were basing her stance on nature, or something solid. She also writes that she is "inebriate of air/debauchee of dew" as if the very air were making her intoxicated. Whitman also says that in Song of Myself, says "houses and rooms are full of perfumes..." so you could say it is part of the Transcendental movement. There is also the belief that imagination can transport one, as in the poem "to make a field/takes but a bee/and reverie/reverie alone will do/when bees are few" as if she can create her own world from her imagination.
This is one of my favorite books of poetry and gets my highest recommendation.
