"I taste a liquor never brewed"
This poem was intriguing. Although I know that the different kinds of liquors are supposed to stand for something else, I wasn't sure what. I thought that maybe they were different life experiences. Throughout the poem, she is trying more and more experiences until she is drunk off of life. All the while, the angels are watching her. By saying that she "tastes a liquor never brewed" she is saying that she is trying something new, maybe even something no one else has attempted. She also has a reference to bees and flowers in the third stanza. This is the time in life when maybe other people give up on you, but you just keep going on. The bees are kicked out of the foxglove, but she keeps on "drinking". At the end of the poem, she is leaning against the Sun. I saw this as her making her way to death, but not necessarily heaven. The angels watch her as she comes there, so I definitely don't think that she is going to hell. But this poem was hard to find symbolism in, I think because it is not written clearly. She is very vague in her description of what exactly is happening.
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